Eric Scheske

An Art Linkletter Anecdote At bedtime last night, Eric Scheske's Kindergarten son Michael informed his Dad that he knew the Holy Family's last name. "Really?" Eric asked. "What is it?" Michael: "Christ."

The Heart Every sin gushes from a complex soul. The Pseudo-Macarius, a master of intimate theology, described the heart (a term nearly synonymous with soul) as follows: "The heart itself is but a small vessel, yet dragons are there, and there are also lions; there are poisonous beasts

Better than the Boston Tea Party We've been blessed with plenty of drinking items lately. Now there's this story about the Japanese's efforts to get around their government's onerous beer tax. According to the article: "By using less malt and more

And Pete Singer Would Say . . .? "Kraft Foods, the No. 1 U.S. foodmaker, will stop making its Road Kill candy after consumers and animal-rights activists complained about the sweets shaped like flattened snakes, chickens and squirrels and marked by tire treads. "Road Kill, part of Kraft'

The Tinsel Clothing We're surprised there's not more talk about the Academy Awards and Hollywood Boulevard. Hollywood Boulevard is one of the most crime-ridden and drug-infested areas of Southern California. According to the morning DJs on WLS in Chicago, they'll need to

The Weekend Eudemon Effectively Ineffective Eric Scheske received a fair amount of hate mail from natural family planning advocates when he--in the throes of his wife's fourth, then fifth, then seventh unexpected pregnancies--expressed doubts about NFP's effectiveness. Writing in Gilbert Magazine, for instance, he

Lew We're repeatedly impressed with the folks over at Lew Rockwell. For a libertarian site, they publish a lot of insightful and intelligent stuff. Libertarian ideas have always appealed to us, but the amorality of their ideas always kept us at a distance (think Jesse "the No

Mead Me They say mead is making a comeback. If so, it'd be the comeback of the millennia. What is mead? Basically, honey wine. A drink made of water, honey, malt, and yeast. It pre-dates beer and grape wine, and it might be the oldest alcoholic drink

Everipody's Talkin' At Me Andrew Sullivan, writing about the iPod world in the Sunday Times, opened his piece with this: "I was visiting New York last week and noticed something I'd never thought I'd say about the city. Yes, nightlife is pretty

A principal made news this week when she prohibited distribution of a high school newspaper that contained an article about sex and virginity. According to the story [http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2005/02/22/s1b_wellhigh_0222.html] , the principal believed that “the article would