Eric Scheske

More French Inanity The Ottawa Citizen's John Robson reports: "In a state-owned TV channel Top 100 French people poll, a certain 'Napoleon' misses the Top 10 cut, placing 16th (one viewer offers the deep historical insight "He was short, arrogant and I wouldn&

NAMBLA Redux The Queens "sicko" accused of abusing "at least seven children told cops he attacked even more kids - and claimed his tiny victims enjoyed the abuse, law enforcement sources said yesterday. 'I never forced them to do anything they didn't want to,'

Bible Okay, God Not A study shows that high school teachers in Britain have found a way to teach Bible stories that suits them: excise all references to God. The prevailing rationale among the teachers for their hellish editing? They fear the pupils might find religious teaching too "boring,

Mere Censorship? Bobby Maddex at the Crux blogs writes this interesting post: "Our sister publication Touchstone received an interesting email yesterday from a high school teacher who could not access its blog Mere Comments [http://merecomments.typepad.com/] from work. Apparently, the school uses a security program called Bess

Z goes X? Has something screwy happened at Zondervan? Eric Scheske hasn't kept tabs on the publisher, but when he was a young Missouri Synod Lutheran, Zondervan was a respected publisher of solid Christian works (at least from the perspective of the teenage Scheske). Now this: "A

A Day in the Life of Ivan Illich We haven't mentioned the Terri Schiavo case, primarily because many other worthy bloggers are doing a fine job covering it. We will say, however, that the whole affair reminds us of the central tenets of Ivan Illich's criticism

Romano Guardini on Palm Sunday "The hour overflows with supernatural power. In these last days it is as if Jesus were gathering strength on strength preparing for the ultimate. He has just summoned Lazarus from the dead. His power has accompanied the disciples into the world, so that at

Roman Ranger Rick on the Right Catholic congressmen are meeting to discuss Catholicism [http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/031505/santorum.html] . We encourage any serious efforts to educate folks about the Catholic faith. Most Protestants understand about one-fourth of Catholicism, and most Catholics's

Tent City A friend sent us this 2004 story [http://www.fenrir.com/free_stuff/columns/callcops/ctc-268.htm] about Sheriff Joe Arpaio's jail creation, "Tent City." We'd heard of it, but didn't know any details. Sounds like a neat set

Nerd War We like Wikipedia, but we don't rely on it much. We mostly use it to confirm our memory; we are uncomfortable accepting uncorroborated information from it. For those not acquainted with this on-line encyclopedia, it is written and edited by anyone who wants to write