Eric Scheske

Maybe It's the Tess Celebration Wine, But . . . The guys at Hog on Ice crack us up sometimes. They're off-color, but frequently funny. Here are one of their contributor's thoughts on bullfighting: I “ate a nutritious breakfast while watching a matador get rectally impaled

No Limbo for Tess The Church received Therese Elizabeth Scheske this evening, about two hours after the Holy Father passed and about thirty minutes before the Blessed Statue of Fatima came through our little parish. Maybe Tess will be a nun. Eric Scheske has three daughters. To give one back

We Will Not Tolerate Your Beliefs "With a growing number of reports of pharmacists around the country refusing to fill prescriptions for birth control and emergency contraception, Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich on Friday filed a rule requiring Illinois pharmacies to accept and dispense all such prescriptions promptly." LINK

Two Jobs Don't Equal Freedom? G.K. Chesterton said the workplace would enslave women, not emancipate them: "While working men spend 6.4 hours a day at work and working women about 5 hours, the women spend about twice as much time on housework and childcare as

New Blog Did you like that rant against corporate America? Here's a blog you might want to bookmark: Hallowed Ground [http://hallowedground.blog-city.com/].

You Ain't Corporate? You Ain't Diddley. Watching the Final Four tonight? You probably won't be in the stands, unless you work for a big company. This, according to USA Today. LINK [http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/mensbasketball/tourney05/2005-03-31-final-four-

Charles Williams We promised more literary comments even though we fear that they're not very popular. Most of our readers appear to enjoy the current events commentary more, which is fine, since we like providing it. Nonetheless, we promised literary references, so we're going to post

Ptolemy Redux [http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/050331_asimov_debate.html] "Though researchers find more and more distant planets revolving around alien suns, the discoveries highlight that Earth and its solar system may be an exceptionally rare place indeed." This, the consensus of researches at the 5th annual

The Weekend Eudemon Whew! Eric Scheske is shaking off a binge this morning. Yes, we realize a binge is only five beers, according to U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, so perhaps he should feel fine. But what if he had a binge and a half? Or

Jane II We should have mentioned: Jane Fonda may have converted to Christianity. LINK [http://www.beliefnet.com/story/7/story_791_1.html]. Guess we were asleep at the mouse when this news broke back in 2000. It rings a bell, but that's it. Thanks to Me