Eric Scheske

> A Romanian traffic cop has been demoted after he fined a driver for "having a face like a moron and being a big monkey". > Marius Vlasceanu pulled over Gheorghe Tosa as he drove through Craiova in Romania, local daily Jurnalul National reported. > But Tosa failed

> A state of the art swimming pool for down-on-their-luck dogs has been opened by the King of Thailand. > The pool at Bangkok's Kasetsart University will provide therapy for sick and injured dogs. > It has been named after the King's favourite

If you weren't aware of it, the Heritage Foundation provides live Internet broadcasts of its events. Link [http://www.heritage.org/Press/Events/index.cfm]. It would be worth downloading the necessary plug-in, if you don't have it already. Here's the list of

> Three New York doctors were charged on Thursday with giving large amounts of Viagra and other anti-impotence drugs to mob members in return for construction and auto repair work done by mafia-controlled businesses. Link [http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2005-05-

> A second-hand Volkswagen Golf once owned by Pope Benedict sold for 188,938 euros ($244,800) to a U.S. buyer in frenzied online bidding, a spokeswoman for eBay in Germany said Thursday. Link [http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2005-05-06T161556Z_

Just another instance of tolerance leading to coercion: > A new law will soon require all New Jersey doctors to complete a course on "cultural competency" to help them understand patients whose lives may be very different from their own. Link [http://www.nj.com/printer/printer.ssf?

> A study funded by the radically pro-abortion organizations, the John Merck foundation and Catholics for a Free Choice, surveyed staff at all 597 Catholic hospitals in the United States and found that only 55% of them refused to dispense the abortifacient morning after pill. Link [http://www.lifesite.

Link [http://www.pfm.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=BreakPoint1&Template=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=15965] . Excerpt: > Of the twenty top-grossing films of all time, not a single one is rated R. Of the top fifty films, only five are rated R. Clearly, Americans want family

The current issue of The New Pantagruel is up. Link [http://www.newpantagruel.com/issues/2.2/]. It promises to be a good one. How could it not be? It features a piece by the modest Eric Scheske.

The Spectator has a pithy "mommentary" piece about an awkward fact: adults usually want to have boys, rather than girls. Link [http://www.lewrockwell.com/spectator2/spec597.html]. Excerpt: > The revelation, and others like it, came after the birth of my son. Walking around with a little