Odd Consumer News
Hot pink toolkit, for the lady or homosexual in your life.
Link [http://www.fredflare.com/customer/product.php?productid=35&cat=312].
Eric Scheske
The Shamanic Catholic
All right, we're assuming actor Jack White wanted the priest and the bride
wanted the Shaman priest. Why the priest blessed a shamanic wedding, we don't
know.
> The [wedding] service was conducted by a shaman priest on a canoe in the Amazon
basin. It was
Arrested for Animal Cruelty?
> Sam Brown, 21, had staggered out of a bar in the early hours and came
face-to-face with two mounted officers.
> Sam, who is studying English at Oxford University, approached one of the cops
and asked: “How do you feel about your horse being gay?”
> He
Hooked on Phonics (and Common Sense)
Some different fare: Britain's whole-word reading programs that were imposed by
the government have been a disaster. Bring back phonics, says this editorial.
Link to Telegraph
[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/06/04/dl0401.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2005/06/04/
Left Coast Uses Scarlet Letter?
We like it, we like it a lot:
> People who solicit prostitutes in Oakland, California, could find their faces
plastered on billboards under a new shaming program that one civil rights group
calls bad public policy.
> The city of 400,000 across the bay from San Francisco started
One Born Every Minute
Prosperity theology fails yet again:
> A man posing as a government employee approached a business owner and said he
needed to take soil samples from the property.
> The next day, the suspect returned with a metal detector claiming he found gold
or silver in the soil.
> The
Book Review of Sacred and Secular
Here's a fairly interesting review by Os Guiness of Sacred and Secular: Religion
and Politics Worldwide by Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart. It re-hashes a lot
of the stuff we hear from other sources, but it's a decent overview. Link
[http://wwics.si.edu/index.
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The Weekend Eudemon
It will be a light Weekend Eudemon today. Eric Scheske's wife and girls are
abandoning him this morning, leaving for Detroit while he stays home with the
four boys, including 22-month-old terror, Max. When we named the kid after
Maximilian Kolbe, we hoped he would imitate
Female God Incarnate
> A new edition of the Gospels of the Bible for the first time shows Christ as a
woman, named Judith Christ of Nazareth, and God as female. In all other
respects, the classic texts of the Gospels remain unchanged.
> The publisher, LBI Institute, has released this new Bible