Eric Scheske

What's Bavaria known best for? Beer, and now the pope. It's fitting that a brewer in Pope Benedict's former village, Marktl am Inn, has started to sell Pabstbier: Pope Beer. Link [http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0504210259apr21,1,4149412.story?coll=chi-

Nice article at Tech Central Station about the CDC's admission this week that it has overblown reports of the adverse health effects of obesity. The article is strongly libertarian (no surprise, coming from TCS), but also seems laced with a little Ivan Illich and his famous opening words

This novel about no-fault divorce in Michigan sounds fairly realistic. We may have to buy it. Link [http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/sobran1.html]. Two excerpts: > 1. The story's hero, Barry Ballinger, has, to say the least, a troubled marriage. His wife, Sal, serves him with

Here's a great story that'll get the ACLU mad: authorities in Alabama arrested a brother and sister for, ah, well, impropriety. It appears they were pretty drunk, but it was fully consensual. Link. [http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/111401010148380.xml] Needless

"Voorhees High School will remain closed today while school and law enforcement officials try to determine how a bag full of rotting animal parts wound up hidden behind a ceiling tile in the school lunchroom." LINK [http://www.pennlive.com/news/expresstimes/nj/index.ssf?/base/news-7/

NBC is doing a mini-series on 9/11. The goal of the mini-series? Based on this excerpt from a NYT story: to humanize the monsters who attacked us. Link [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/20/movies/20atta.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5090&en=b64d01fc0e3fed52&

"A woman who was fired by Costco in 2001 for refusing to remove her eyebrow ring has accused the company of religious discrimination, saying she is a member of the Church of Body Modification." Link. [http://www.thetimesonline.com/articles/2005/04/20/updates/odds_and_ends/139e45b7391b527286256fe900543acf.

There's an international gay pride parade scheduled for this summer in Jerusalem. Last month, Jews, Muslims, Catholics and evangelical Christians put their disapproval of homosexual behavior above theological differences to condemn the parade. This week, a coalition of Jews have backed it. Three-fourths of Jerusalem's

Look at the bright side: Some fiddler's gonna get a great deal on it at Slippery Pete's Pawn Shop. It'll be the best "Devil Went Down to Georgia" ever. > A local musician is issuing a desperate plea for the return of

Michigan's New York Times, the Detroit Free Press, ran an article recently about all those baby-enhancement videos. You know the kind: Baby Genius, Baby Einstein, Brainy Baby. Sales of these "kid-vids" hit $4.4 billion in 2004 and the pressure to buy them ("