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Eric Scheske

NBC Lashes Out at Christians, Again

Are these folks just ignorant or so bigoted that they can't see straight [http://blog.catholicsphere.com/?p=489]? > The April 13 episode [of Will and Grace] will mock the crucifixion of Christ, the American Family Association said. > April 13th is “Holy Thursday”. > “On the

The Common Culture

The Christian Science Monitor asks, "In an age of increasing sources of reading and viewing material, do we have a common pop culture anymore?" It concludes that, though weakened, we do. It's an entertaining article. It also provides this Top Ten List of pop events that

Kanye West Chairs the NAACP?

> Civil rights activist and NAACP Chairman Julian Bond delivered a blistering partisan speech at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina last night, equating the Republican Party with the Nazi Party and characterizing Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her predecessor, Colin Powell, as "tokens." > "The

Destroy the Establishment

This kid really has eclectic tastes: Oprah, Bush, Wal-Mart, and Coke. Those are the four pillars of society, no? I'm not sure how the Pope got left off the list, though. > The Secret Service is investigating a seventh grader who wrote a school essay that authorities

Oprah is Next

> In an unprecedented gesture, Pope Benedict XVI has written an introductory about his own encyclical, Deus Caritas Est, for the magazine Famiglia Cristiana. The Italian weekly has published a special edition, containing the entirety of the Pope's encyclical, with a cover date of February 5. > "

Misc. Leno

From last night's show: > The first confirmed case of bird flu has just been discovered in Iraq. This is just the kind of thing that can destroy their tourism industry. > "Walk The Line” was passed over for best picture nomination. Which makes 'Brokeback Mountain”

Speech Will be Speech

> Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Wednesday that attempts by governments to censor Web site contents were doomed, because banned information can seep out despite official injunctions. > "The ability to really withhold information no longer exists," Gates told a government forum on the Internet. > Gates

Lesbian Soldiers? Who Woulda Thunk

From Britain [http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006050466,00.html]: > Two lesbian soldiers have become the first Army gays to get wed, The Sun can reveal. > Privates Sonya Gould, 19, and Vanessa Haydock, 18, tied the knot under new civil laws. > Vanessa, based at

Denying Free Speech

The link in the previous post, incidentally, is to a column entitled, "Threaten One, Intimidate a Million." The inference is obvious: The West's "multi-cultural" acceptance of Islam is threatening everyone's civil rights. My reader in the last post wanted to be

Islamic Fire

Those Danish cartoons keep firing up the Muslims [http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,398532,00.html]. Then again, pretty much anything fires up the Muslims. A reader writes: > Anonymous post for your blog (because my husband does not want me to write or say anything in