Eric Scheske

More Absinthe We are pursuing this absinthe matter further (see 3/25 "Friday's Brews You Can Use"). Per our request, Dale Ahlquist, Publisher of Gilbert Magazine and President of the American Chesterton Society, passed along seven passages from works of G.K. Chesterton that mention it.

Electronically Perverse, Yet Modest From News of the Weird: "Vivienne, an interactive companion accessible on powerful, 'third-generation' cellphones, was recently introduced by the Hong Kong company Artificial Life as a high-maintenance, video-image 'girlfriend' who goes on dates with you, kisses, speaks six

Stalinists and Satanists We read recently that Moscow has over 30 Satanist sects and about 2,000 Satanists. LINK [http://mosnews.com/news/2005/03/25/satanicmoscow.shtml]. While reading the article, we kept thinking it said "Stalinists." It wouldn't make much a difference, both being

The Weekend Eudemon Concentration Camp U.S.A. We did a little pilsner philosophizing last night about Bishop Bruskewitz's mass excommunication nine years ago. After drinking about it, we've concluded that we were a little too flippant in our observation that Bruskewitz's actions didn&

Million Dollar Schiavo Crushing piece in the Harvard Crimson today [http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=506716] about Terri Schiavo and Americans' disdain for people with disabilities. After Million Dollar Baby came out, we opined that "better dead than disabled" has stealthily become a part of

Shacking Up and Shaking Out A few interesting items from the National Catholic Register that came today: 1. A study in Britain shows that unmarried couples with young children are five times more likely to break up than married couple families. Nearly one in two cohabitating couples split before their

Good Friday "His Cross has put its due value upon every thing which we see, upon all fortunes, all advantages, all ranks, all dignities, all pleasures; upon the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. It has set a price upon

The Sci-Fi of It All! We thought this story [http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=313952005] might have been a bad Monty Python spoof, but no such luck: "MPs will today recommend giving the go-ahead to couples to create 'designer babies' and allowing the

Friday's "Brews" You Can Use We weren't going to post any drinking news today, in light of Good Friday, but we find this story [http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20050323-0500-life-absinthe.html] fascinating, mostly because we know very little about this

Another Alternative Lifestyle Well, it has happened. We always joked about punk rockers with their fishing tackle boxes hanging from their face: "If they wanna mess themselves up, why don't they get serious and amputate an arm? That's really messed up." It turns out