Eric Scheske

White wine in King Tut's tomb [http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2006-05-29-tut-white-wine_x.htm?csp=15] . Egyptians thought wine was necessary for the after-life, so they provided it on this side. Up until this discovery, though, all such wine

> All across Norway precautions are being mounted to prevent churches being torched on June 6, 2006 [http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1336139.ece]. My hunch: The "Satanic" day will pass without incident. A few subpars will get married on that day and spawn a few Damiens,

Thomas Woods has a new website [http://www.thomasewoods.com/]. Woods is the author who, in a moment of weakness (smile), endorsed this blog awhile back.

> A Croatian shepherd is hoping for a place in the Guinness Book of Records after he lost 230 animals in a freak storm. Milan Prpic has written to Guinness asking if he can be included for having the most sheep killed by a single lightning strike [http://www.ananova.

Two women are accused of taking out life insurance policies on homeless men, then killing them. LA Times [http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-olgahelen31may31,0,5138323.story?page=1&coll=la-headlines-california] Link. This was an old scam, reaching back to at least the nineteenth

Face-blindness. I'd never heard of it, except in connection with the old racial joke, "We all look alike to you, anyway." Interesting stuff: > Severe prosopagnosics may mistake complete strangers for acquaintances even as they fail to recognize family members, close friends, spouses, and even

While spanning the blogging world, looking for new Catholic blogs, I ran across this one: The Lair of the Catholic Cavemen [http://catholic-caveman.blogspot.com/]. After five minutes, I decided to bookmark it. How could I resist, after seeing their sub-title: "The Car Crash of Blogs. You