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Eric Scheske

Brews You Can Use III

What is America's best lite beer? In this Philly taste test, [http://cbs3.com/consumer/local_story_118213542.html] no clear winner was declared. But they made one finding that I enjoy: Bud Light is no good. The best lite beer, incidentally, is MGD Lite (just my opinion,

Brews You Can Use II

Need a beer for Cinco de Mayo [http://www.vivacincodemayo.org/history.htm]? Try this [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/05/04/WIGA7IJFVB1.DTL], a beer with chipotle chiles (smoked jalapenos). I'll pass, but if that's your thing, drink

Brews You Can Use

How much can you drink tonight? To merriness. From Charles Coulombe's article, Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion, in the most recent Catholic Men's Quarterly [http://www.houseonthemoor.com/]: > [T]he view of the Church [with respect to drink] go back to the Book of Proverbs'

Fathers of the Church

I know I already plugged it once, but if you're interested in history and you're not reading Fathers of the Church, you're missing a lot. I'm stunned at the amount of great script that Michael Aquilina is cranking out . . . every day. Read,

Ironic Assault

I get legal updates all the time. According to an update I received today, a new Michigan case holds that "sexually aggressive and predatory words may be sufficient to put an employer on notice of its employee's propensity for violence. Based on what plaintiff's attacker

Barefoot and Pregnant and (Not) Broke

> A full-time stay-at-home mother would earn $134,121 a year if paid for all her work, an amount similar to a top U.S. ad executive, a marketing director or a judge, according to a study released Wednesday. This type of study isn't new.

Ennui Nation

Or maybe it's "Nerd Nation." You decide [http://www.happynews.com/news/532006/abc-to-show-spelling-bee-in-prime-time.htm] : > For the first time in its 79-year history, the National Spelling Bee . . . will go prime time for next month's drama-

Cheech and Chong Nation

I missed this story yesterday: Mexico is poised to legalize cocaine, heroin, LSD, marijuana, PCP, opium, synthetic opiates, mescaline, peyote, psilocybin mushrooms, amphetamines, and methamphetamines. LA Times Link [http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-legalize3may03,0,5634216.story?track=tothtml] . I gotta believe this was on the

Shocker

> Britain is less happy than in the 1950s - despite the fact that we are three times richer [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/programmes/happiness_formula/4771908.stm]. We better get a team of researchers on this. Maybe they'll discover that man is not made of

Hell Freezes Over

> Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios backed efforts yesterday toward the construction of a mosque in Athens after Greece was recently criticized for not offering its Muslim community a suitable prayer site [http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/?p=1594#more-1594].