Eric Scheske

Amazing/troubling/sickening. You decide: Results from an eBay search of "Pope Benedict" LINK [http://search.ebay.com/pope-benedict_W0QQsojsZ1QQfromZR40]

Let the sputtering and fury from the NYT, WaPo, and others begin.

Highly interesting piece in The Weekly Standard about the evolution of movies. Essentially, the piece says that movies no longer make money at the box office. The real money is in the DVDs and the spin-off toys and games. The results have reverberated throughout the industry, from blurry screens

Here's a (perhaps purposefully?) disjointed yet interesting account of liberal General Peter J. Schoomaker's plans to get women into combat. LINK [http://www.charmaineyoest.com/]

There's a pretty good review of Leslie Woodcock Tentler's Catholics and Contraception at Christianity Today. LINK [http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2005/003/2.16.html]. It's one of those reviews that seems to summarize the entire book, thus precluding our need to read

Disturbing op-ed by Dennis Prager today. LINK [http://www.townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/dp20050419.shtml]. It discusses a young woman who admits she learned to be a lesbian (or part-time lesbian) at college. After reading a column of hers in the university newspaper, he interviewed her. Here'

From Reuters this morning: "Faced with a shortage of clergymen and dwindling churchgoers, Catholic churches in Europe, the United States and Latin America are seeking the services of Indian priests to run parishes and say Mass, church officials said." LINK [http://uk.news.yahoo.com/050419/325/fgn50.

Smarmy article in NYT this morning about Catholicism's fall in Europe. It's nothing new, of course (heck, George Weigel's current big book is all about it). The NYT article attributes it to the Church being out-of-touch with European ways. The implication that

The Detroit Free Press ran an article about a suburban Detroit mother who appeared in Playboy's "Real Desperate Housewives" pictorial. We're acquainted with her suburb; it's fairly upscale. But the woman is still trash and not even very good looking. LINK [http:

The drought that has hit the Pacific Northwest could produce a nation-wide drought of the worst kind: less beer and wine. According to this article, "the region is the nation's largest producer of hops, a key ingredient in beer, and Washington state and Oregon are among