Site Down
My blog site went down, courtesy of Site5 (my paid provider), for over five
hours. Sorry 'bout that. I'll try to resume blogging at full strength tomorrow.
Eric Scheske
Cuffing the Preacher
This took place in the normally-staid Missouri Synod Lutheran Church. I used to
be a member. I'm pretty sure they have proper synod channels to deal with these
issues, so I'm somewhat puzzled about the police's involvement:
> A Lutheran pastor who has
Irritable Gays
> A particularly bad strain of chlamydia not usually seen in this country appears
to be slowly spreading among gay and bisexual men, an infection that can
increase their chances of getting or spreading the AIDS virus.
> Called LGV chlamydia, this sexually transmitted disease has caused a worrisome
outbreak
Over Estimating Nerd Buying Power
To quote William Shatner: "Get a life, will ya?"
> A Star Trek fan has gone bankrupt after spending £12,000 turning his home into
the Starship Voyager.
> Tony Alleyne's flat in Hinckley, Leics, has moulded walls, touch-panel blue
lighting and a life-
New Gay Site
In case you're tired of all those straight sites. Courtesy of (who else?) NBC:
> The Bravo network is expected to announced today that it is joining with
PlanetOut Inc., the largest gay media company in the country, to start a new
broadband channel on the Web aimed
Leno on the Super Bowl
> Seattle fans were furious at some of the referees' calls – at one point an angry
mob went outside in downtown Seattle and started tossing ice lattes on Volvos.
They were throwing their Birkenstocks.
> Big night for the Rolling Stones. First the halftime then bedtime.
> I don&
The Gift of Death That Keeps on Giving
> RU-486 is the drug that won't die, no matter how many women who take it do. A
recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine suggested that an RU-486
abortion was an astonishing ten times more likely to be fatal for the mother
than
25M Condoms
> The Brazilian government will distribute 25 million free condoms to promote
safe
sex during the country's Carnival holidays, the Health Ministry said on Monday
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.
Those Brazilians are so open, so enlightened. We oughtta be
A Voice of Moderation
As usual, the Vatican strikes a sane position in the Danish cartoon controversy:
> In an official statement regarding the controversy over publication of cartoons
mocking Islam, the Vatican has said that freedom of speech "cannot imply the
right to offend the religious sentiments of believers." The Vatican
LOTR on Stage
The preview of the Toronto stage production is getting good reviews:
> The gnarled forests of Middle Earth thrust out to embrace the audience. The
automated, cantilevered stage turns, twists, rises, falls and tilts in myriad
and extraordinary ways -- at one moment, a winding forest path, the next, a
soaring