Hunting Accident
Is anyone else baffled by all this coverage of the Cheney hunting accident? For
crying out loud, I've known people shot in hunting accidents. It's tragic, it's
unfortunate . . . but it's an accident. I'm not a big fan of the neo-
Eric Scheske
My Valentine
I've gotten some grief for my Catholic Exchange column last week about not being
"in love" with my wife, Marie, anymore. Link
[http://www.catholicexchange.com/vm/index.asp?vm_id=1&art_id=31817]. In that
column, I wrote,
> There's
The Cowards
Pretty much everyone is piling onto the "Europe is in Big Trouble" bandwagon,
and they're even acknowledging that the problem is a lack of babies. The
Washington Post has even piled on
[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/13/AR2006021301569.html]
, and
Glad I'm Not in Italy
> A woman prisoner has won a court case forcing her boyfriend to bring her nicer
presents.
> A court in Focsani, Romania, ordered Nicusor Constantin, 30, to put more effort
into his choice of presents for girlfriend Sicuta Radulescu.
> Radulescu, 36, is serving a four year sentence for
Brews You Can Use
Yeah, I know it's only Monday, but I could use a drink, and this is interesting:
> A wine collector has paid $96,000 for the privilege of drinking some very old
wine. It's a French Sauterne, vintage 1787 -- the most expensive bottle of
white
wine
Four Meme
Curt Jester [http://www.splendoroftruth.com/curtjester/archives/006468.php]
tagged me almost two weeks ago. With my wife's broken foot and other issues, I
haven't been to his site lately, though I typically visit there 4-5 times a
week. Anyway:
Four Jobs I'
Boys Education
And we thought we had it tough here, just dealing with the Title IX types:Â
> A Russian teacher faces two years in jail after ordering her students to lick
clean the floor of a classroom.
> Irina Gorova has been suspended from her school in Zolotaya Dolina for
Alice in Wonderhell
Surely one of the must-not-see productions
[http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060212/en_afp/afpentertainmentfilm_060212193412]:
> Gothic US rocker Marilyn Manson announced at the Berlin Film Festival that he
plans to direct a film based on the diary of Lewis Carroll in which he will play
More of Walker Percy's Cult of the Naughty Nice
> A fund-raiser hosted by a Brooklyn political leader this week caused red faces
when guests at the event in a Chinese restaurant cracked open fortune cookies
with X-rated messages.
"The insertions in some of the cookies were really triple-X, graphic sex, can't
be
Growing Up Muslim
A Muslim woman writes about growing up in the Middle East. You begin to get a
feel for what we're dealing with here: generations of hatred for all things
Jewish, Christian, and Western. Then they come here, and we're surprised that
they're so bogue: