Eric Scheske

Even a Guy on the Left Understands With all the attention on the Pope's illness and death, the level of ignorance about things Romish has really come to the surface. Every hack thinker has all sorts of ideas for the Church, from women in the pulpit and married

Burial in Poland? Smokin' Joe Trembley [http://onnothing.blogspot.com/] sends this along in response to rumors that John Paul wanted to be buried in Poland: "Chief Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said John Paul would 'almost surely' be buried in the tomb where Pope John

Conservatives on the Gay Left As Kansas prepares to vote tomorrow on a constitutional ban on gay marriages, one lesbian comments about the proposal, "The consequences of this are totally unknown," said Sandra Kobets, a 55-year-old Prairie Village nurse with a female partner of nearly 11

Suffering Fools Gladly 101 James Taranto knows not to deal seriously with folks who lack the most basic levels of discernment [http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/]: Jack Nargundkar of Germantown, Md., is confused, as he made clear in a letter to the editor of the New York Times the other

Blues and the South Engaging article by Clyde Wilson that pithily recounts the South's conservatism and the whines from the Blues that they'd like to secede from the Union in light of the 2004 elections. LINK [http://www.lewrockwell.com/wilson/wilson17.html]. Closing excerpt: There

Billionaire Lion Another successful man is prepared to make a killing off Hollywood's obsession with breasts, violence, and flatulence. This time, it's billionaire Philip Anschutz, the entrepreneur behind Anschutz's Walden Media. AWM is the child-centric division of Anschutz Film Group and the maker

A Blog Worth the Click James Thumos has a worthy blog. We've been watching him for awhile and, though his posts had been sporadic, his quotidian postings have been going strong recently. Today he has fitting words for the New York Times' editorial on JPII: “The New

Consumerism and a Sad Flip-side From News of the Weird: “On Thika highway in Nairobi, Kenya, in February, frenzied and hungry villagers brawled for access to meat from a baby hippopotamus (about 1,700 lbs.) that had been killed by a passing vehicle. Amidst the kicking and punching, two

Nazi Western Civ Prof And we thought FDU's only problem was getting the sixteenth seed every year in the NCAA Basketball Tournament: “Fairleigh Dickinson University last week dismissed an adjunct professor who is a leader of the National Socialist Movement of the United States, also known as the

John Paul the Great Richard John Neuhaus is one of the folks pitching for John Paul the Great. LINK [http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/42137.htm]. “In the nearly two millennia of the Church's history, only two popes are known as 'The Great': Leo the