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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

Going After Them Reading People

I don't know how I missed this last week: > This coming Tuesday, the new line of NASCAR-themed Harlequin Romance books makes its official debut with a press conference at Daytona International Speedway. Link to Week-Old News [http://www.exceptionalmarriages.com/weblog/BlogDetail.asp?ID=29102]

Brokeback Teens

From Townhall [http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/JennniferRobackMorse/2006/02/20/187136.html] : Â > The recent New York Times article [http://www.nymetro.com/news/features/15589/] on the Cuddle Puddle at Stuyvesant High School unwittingly undermines the legal strategy of the Gay Rights movement. Because the article

The Shroud and the Olympics

From USA Today [http://www.usatoday.com/sports/columnist/mccarthy/2006-02-14-mccarthy-oly_x.htm] : > [O]ver five days of coverage so far, NBC (with the exception of Today) has yet to mention the Shroud of Turin. Whether you venerate the Shroud as the actual burial cloth

Bossin' the Bars

From Chicago [http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-02-14-chicago-cameras_x.htm]: > Surveillance cameras – aimed at government buildings, train platforms and intersections here – might soon be required at corner taverns and swanky nightclubs.Â > Mayor Richard Daley wants to require bars open until 4 a.

The Monday Eudemon

Man, slow news day. Nothing seems worth blogging about. I'm bummed that I missed the fall-fest during ice dancing last night at the Olympics [http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/torino/figureskating/2006-02-19-ice-dancing_x.htm] . A fall during ice skating can be more

Bernanos

It's George Bernanos' birthday today. Here are a few links to the excellent fiction writer. General Bio Link [http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/bernanos.htm]. Crisis Link [http://www.crisismagazine.com/julaug2002/book4.htm]. Welborn on Diary of a Country Priest [http://www.amywelborn.com/catholicwriters/diary.

Ugly Criminals

> Not only are physically unattractive teenagers likely to be stay-at-homes on prom night, they're also more likely to grow up to be criminals, say two economists who tracked the life course of young people from high school through early adulthood. > "We find that

Odd Consumer News

A lamp that plays the 9/11 attack [http://www.voyantes.net/blog/?p=108]. A bit morbid, if you ask me.

Body Language

> The US military has funded a computer game to teach its troops how to use and decipher Iraqi body language. > The purpose is to teach soldiers that using the wrong gestures can potentially cause offence and escalate already tense situations. Link [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/

The Religion of Peace

> Iran's hardline spiritual leaders have issued an unprecedented new fatwa, or holy order, sanctioning the use of atomic weapons against its enemies. > In yet another sign of Teheran's stiffening resolve on the nuclear issue, influential Muslim clerics have for the first time questioned the