Eric Scheske

Why does the Left love the Dalai Lama but despise the Pope? Maybe it oughtta be the other way around. Via The Dawn Patrol [http://www.dawneden.com/2007/08/lama-vs-papa.html]:

Hand me an angioplasty. I went to the movies three times in the past seven nights: I took our out-of-town teenage company to see Bourne Ultimatum last Wednesday, my son Alex to see The Simpsons on Sunday, and my wife to see Live Free or Die Hard last

Well, isn't that pleasant: The safety problems affecting Chinese goods spread from toys to textiles on Monday as New Zealand said it would investigate allegations that imported children's clothes contained dangerous levels of formaldehyde [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f66851fc-4f48-11dc-b485-0000779fd2ac.

My most-recent blog column at The Register is up, and I don't think you need a password to access it [http://ncregister.com/site/article/3428/]. Excerpt: > The army of half-read books in my study has prompted me to think a lot about the problem

I'm looking for Catholic bloggers that aren't afraid to display a side of themselves that might grate against traditional Catholic sensibilities: the type that write about their drinking exploits, use vulgar language, talk about pretty women, or otherwise display a bit of pre-conversion Augustinianism. Post

Seasickness [http://www.seasickness.co.uk/] is pretty brutal. I'd heard that many times, and Waugh's references to it in Brideshead Revisited stand out for some reason, but I experienced it for the first time yesterday. One of my law partners leases 30-foot sail boats

This article about the prison system got a lot of attention this week [http://bostonreview.net/BR32.4/loury.html]. Part of it is nauseating ("We're hard on criminals because they're black"), but the writer raises legitimate issues and provides interesting facts. Excerpt: >