Eric Scheske

The University of Iowa is offering a course on pornography. It sounds outrageous, but quite frankly, given the prevalence of porn in our culture, such studies might have merit. Unfortunately, any attempt to handle them from the relativist and secular position found at a public university would derogate to a

One person or one family kicks and screams and demands to get their way--even if everyone else wants it otherwise. Link [http://www.tonguetied.us/]. Excerpt: > Florida Today is reporting that the family of one graduating high school senior in that state wants its child's graduation

> Italian police have discovered a mob-linked race track where they say horses were pumped full of Viagra and other drugs to fix races. Link [http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=8519171].

Or maybe you're snobbish like a bubble-guy, but can't quite afford the $3 million outlay:

Lookin' for a new pad? A bubble-house in France is available for only $3 million. Link [http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/005727.php].

Finally, someone is speaking out against the wedding ceremony industry. We're not sure we agree with part of his solution (a reception with no booze is like a honeymoon without . . . nevermind), but he raises valid points. Link [http://www.lewrockwell.com/barnwell/barnwell48.html]. Two excerpts: > One

We don't particularly identify ourselves with the religious right, since that's more of an evangelical thing and we're Catholic, but everyone knows we're now allies in the culture wars. So we were glad to see the religious right claim one of the

This is one of those stories that is so outrageous that even we have difficulty believing the pro-homosexual forces did such a thing. It appears a public high school in Massachusetts distributed a "how-to-be-a-queer" booklet to students. Link [http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/

> A former supervisor at a Budweiser distributorship says he was fired for drinking a Coors beer in public. > Ross Hopkins, 41, filed suit in Weld County District Court, saying American Eagle Distributing Co. has no right to tell him what kind of beer to drink when he is

Issue XXV We've been reading about a new mental problem: blogging addiction. Sure, so far it's just bloggers joking about it: "How do you stop?" But soon, a psychiatrist will have an actual case, he'll write a journal article about it, a