Eric Scheske

As human procreation drops, we replace children with dogs--and legislative efforts reflect it. In addition to a bill to ban pet cloning, here are three other bills currently in front of the California legislature alone: > Ӣ Dogs would be allowed to roam free on a mile-long section of

FARGO, N.D. - Police arrested a 21-year-old man early Saturday after he allegedly assaulted a pizza delivery driver who refused to take marijuana as payment, police said. Link [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/newsreel/].

> A pregnant woman named Akono was quoted in a March Agence France-Presse dispatch from London during demonstrations against U.S. policy in Iraq as saying she planned to intensify her own protest by soon going on a hunger strike, reasoning that she wants "to do everything I

Hilaire Belloc often pointed out that modern Western civilization runs off the fumes of the civilization built by the Catholic Church (see, for instance, Belloc's Europe and the Faith). At least one modern scholar agrees with him. Today is the official release date of Thomas E. Woods'

At Winthrop University students can learn how to create and form their own pieces of medieval armor, learn to brew medieval beer, and distill medieval wine. Link [http://www.thejohnsonian.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/05/01/42751af0ed7f9]. It's odd, sure, but we kind of like it.

"In Rockport, Mass., a chaired professor of economics at Harvard, Martin Weitzman, was charged with larceny after a farmer said Weitzman has long been trespassing and hauling away manure for his own nearby farm, thus denying the farmer his market price of $35 per truckload." Couldn't

The San Francisco Chronicle has a favorable review of Bob Avakian's From Ike to Mao and Beyond, the memoir of a recalcitrant Marxist. According to the Chronicle, the book "leaves a breathtaking impression. Having deepened and purified his convictions over 40 years of personal and political struggle,

Regular readers have no doubt picked up on the general subject matter of this blog: things religious and cultural first, things political where the religious and cultural bleed into politics second (maybe even third or fourth). Thus, readers rarely see straight-out political commentary, like the Bolton nomination issue and

Let's hope fundamentalist Mormon missionaries don't make progress in this place: > [Marital] abductions are common here. More than half of Kyrgyzstan's married women were snatched from the street by their husbands in a custom known as "ala kachuu," which translates roughly

> One of the most populous Catholic countries in the world is set to significantly liberalize its laws on family planning and "reproductive health" services, stopping just short of outright legalization of abortion. > The proposed legislation, which is likely to pass within months, sets in place a