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Eric Scheske

The Cowards

Pretty much everyone is piling onto the "Europe is in Big Trouble" bandwagon, and they're even acknowledging thatÂ the problem isÂ a lack ofÂ 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 MuslimÂ 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:

Patience

My blogging software made some fairly radical changes to its structure, and I'm still learning the ropes. Please be patient with screwy timestamps and other problems for a day or two, until I figure everything out. Thanks.

Dumb People Getting Smarter

Maybe that's why they're still playing videogames at age 30 instead of holding down a job: > Before you assume gadgets and video games fry the minds of the future, consider this: Canadian researchers are finding evidence that the high-speed, multitasking of the young and