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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

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].

Leno on Gas Prices

California now has the most expensive gas prices. Gas is so expensive now that drivers are shooting themselves instead of each other. It's affecting a lot of people. You just wait for the Indy 200 at the end of the month.

Meanwhile, Andrew Sullivan Weeps at the Beauty

> In her new memoir, NOW IT'S MY TURN (Simon & Schuster/Threshold Editions, 2006), Mary Cheney writes that when she told her parents she was gay, the first words out of her father's mouth “were exactly the ones that I wanted to hear: 'You&

The Future

From an interview with Bishop Carlson of Saginaw [http://www.catholicreport.org/?id=181]: > Catholic schools are our future. We need strong Catholic schools to teach the faith and to evangelize. We need to keep the schools going all the while paying a just wage. As I mentioned, we

Not What You Think

Barefoot and Pregnant [http://www.barefootandpregnant.com/]. It's a spa, not a philosophy. Too bad. (Heh, heh, heh. Anyone know where I can get a cheap room for the night?)