Eric Scheske

> The editor of the Jesuit weekly America is leaving the magazine after the Vatican received complaints about articles he published on touchy issues such as same-sex marriages and stem cell research, Jesuit officials said Friday. Link [http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050506/ap_

Now those ecologically-friendly wind farms are bad for nature. How? Birds run into the turbines. Link [http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7350&feedId=online-news_rss20]. Excerpts: > "Available evidence suggests that wind farms reduce the abundance of many bird species at the wind farm

Remember the Small Pax site we mentioned earlier? We found this nifty little anti-anti-smoking picture called "Passive Hate" through that site: Link [http://blog.gleeson.us/sean/2005/04/26/passive_hate].

Ignatius Press has issued the first set of the complete Fr. Brown stories, with notes from John Peterson. Link [http://www.ignatius.com/ViewProduct.aspx?SID=1&Product_ID=2493&SKU=GKC12-P&ReturnURL=search.aspx%3f%3fSID%3d1%26SearchCriteria%3dpeterson] .

Here's a nice site [http://www.smallpax.com/]. From what we can tell, it's a group of illustrators hanging-out together on-line, showing each other their stuff. Two of the illustrators work for Gilbert Magazine. Sample: A great drawing of G.K. Chesterton's

The worship of youth continues its devastation: > A guest on the television talk show "Oprah" recently shared her secret to fighting facial wrinkles: vaginal cream. > "I have been putting Premarin vaginal cream on my face for 20 years, and it works," said Vicki Mackarvich.

A teenage girl breaks up with her boyfriend. He supposedly says some unkind things about her. In retaliation, she causes 300 naked photos of him to be passed around the school, much to the amusement of the other student bodies. But apparently they're back together: > "It&

> The City of Toronto licenses more than 200 brothels under the banner of holistic health centres, a Toronto Star investigation has found. > Licensed to offer alternative health treatments such as shiatsu, reflexology and aromatherapy, about three-quarters of the city's holistic centres operate as sex dens.

Nasty Tina Brown is outta here! > A moment of silence, please, for Harold Evans, Henry the Intern, and the three diabetics watching CNBC on Sunday nights: Tina Brown, she of the bathroom that time forgot, has been “relinquished” of her duties and the last episode of Topic A will

Felon in the outfield. That's Eric Scheske. As we've mentioned before, May means nice weather and lots of children sporting events. But Friday was just too gorgeous (70 and sunny) to enjoy cold sober, so he took Child Three to baseball practice and helped out for