Eric Scheske

Vicuna In yesterday's Weekly Features Post, there is a reference to vicuna. In our ignorance, we didn't know what it was. It's a very soft fabric made from, shocker shocker, vicuna. A reader sends along this picture, in case anyone else is curious:

Lawrence is Fuming Kansas yesterday approved a constitutional amendment that bans homosexual marriage. LINK [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,152572,00.html]. That means eighteen states are rife with hatred and bigotry. Sixteen more states are supposedly lining up to declare themselves narrow-minded. What's going

Weekly Features Post Issue XVIII What a difference a week makes. Last week, we wrote/slashed together the Weekly Features Post with a tall cold one at our elbow. This week? Tuesday a.m., cold sober. The beer went with the mother-in-law. And with the wife. Her passion

Bullies are Couch Potatoes There's more evidence that TV leads to aggressive behavior. LINK [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,152430,00.html]. Excerpt: According to researchers, "We have added bullying to the list of potential negative consequences of excessive television viewing along with obesity, inattention,

Getting Rid of Religion, Again A young man named Sam Harris has written a scathing book against religion: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason. Based on this dissecting review [http://www.christianitytoday.com/books/features/bookwk/050404.html] in Christianity Today, the book is well

The Grey Lady II We went to the First Things archives and pulled up these words from Richard John Neuhaus (2002) about Cahill's view of JPII: Thomas Cahill does his duty by Catholic liberalism with Pope John XXIII, which is part of the Penguin Lives series. It is

Leave it to the Grey Lady The New York Times has ran a harsh op-ed about JPII's accomplishments. It's exactly what we expected to issue eventually from a leftist press that's largely been respectful for an entire 48 hours following the Pope'

Gay Con Man? Like the doctors suing over paternity after the woman “stole” the man's sperm, these types of stories always humor us. Here, it looks like a homosexual tricked men into stripping for him by promising prize money from a local radio station. (The story doesn'

That's Good Catholic Mocking In light of John Paul's worsening condition on Saturday, the producers of “Desperate Housewives” edited out a reference to Catholics in Sunday night's episode in which two of the characters are attending a Catholic funeral. One of the characters says,

The Secular Press, Too, Shall Pass . . . But the Church will still be standing. Mark Steyn at the Telegraph has a great piece [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/04/05/do0501.xml] on John Paul II and Truth v. the Secular Press and Relativism. Here&