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Eric Scheske

Females Killed

How many female American soldiers have been killed in Iraq? I remember seeing a Budweiser commercial back in February. It showed returning U.S. military personnel and airport patrons applauding them. The camera showed close-ups of the military personnel. Out of seven close-ups, five of them were of the female

Caitlin's New Book

Fine stylist Caitlin Flanagan has waded further into the feminist wars with a book on working mothers. The LA Times [http://www.calendarlive.com/books/cl-et-flanagan12apr12,0,487361.story?coll=la-home-headlines] has a pretty a good piece about it. Excerpt: > These are the women who seem to be a

Hold This

Karl Keating addresses hand holding during the Our Father at Mass [http://www.catholic.com/newsletters/kke_060411.asp] (see second item). Unfortunately, he doesn't provide much ammunition for killing it, so the hand-holding Nazis will keep grabbing. I can't say how many times I'

Compendium of the Cathechism

Baltimorish [http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=9657]? The era of murkiness is clearing away?

The Spider Eudemon

Crawling the web to bring you an interesting assortment: Joseph Pearce longs for England [http://www.dappledthings.org/lent06/feature.html]. (Name drop: I met Pearce once. We were both speaking at a Chesterton Conference in Minnesota. Very pleasant fellow.) Fr. Jonathan Morris at Fox News Blogs writes about the

Suing to be Intolerant

The Huff Po headline said, "Christians Sue For For [sic] Right to be Intolerant." It linked to this LA Times [http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-na-christians10apr10,0,6596503.story] story that's entitled, " Christians Sue for Right Not to Tolerate Policies." It's

Space Exploration

Here's a picture of my family at the Huntington, Alabama space center. I enjoyed the visit. The center displays all aspects of space exploration. But one thing was missing from this humongous NASA public-relations effort: Any mention of what space exploration has benefited us. This huge complex offered

Scientology, Again

I ran across this [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Secrets/TR/critique.html] today: > Hubbard said, "THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM..., because the second you start telling anybody close to the truth, you start releasing him and he gets tougher

David Dross

Another item for my hectic Monday morning: David Scott left miscellaneous notes in the draft bank. He describes them as "dross," which might be true, in the sense that they're only loosely connected thoughts that were meant to go together at some point. But they'

Monday Morning Eudemon

Well, it's Monday morning, and I've been out of the office for seven weekdays. It's 7:50 a.m., and my phone is set to go off like I just won the Powerball [http://www.powerball.com/]. Blogging will be light, but I have