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Eric Scheske

5-Year Plan

From this morning's WaPo: [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/27/AR2006012701588.html] > The [Chinese Communist] party declared rural reform a major goal of its new five-year economic program, which began this month. A five-year-plan? I thought those went out

French Canadians

> A court in Lille handed down its sentence on a French Parliamentarian Tuesday, fining him 3000 Euros and forcing him to pay an additional 6000 Euros to be split between three homosexual activist groups who brought the charges against the MP. Christian Vanneste, a member of the UMP representing

The Weekend Eudemon

Mellow weekend. Just the way I like 'em. I walked uptown with my 9-year-old to the bookstore after work yesterday. We took the 2-year-old and 10-month-old, too. While checking out, the cash register wouldn't accept my gift certificate for some reason.

Brews You Can Use V

Well, it's brews you can use, if you have a daughter who likes to drink: > A judge who sentenced three teenagers to probation threw them in jail after he saw them ridiculing him and drinking alcohol on a Web site [http://www.wlns.com/Global/story.asp?

Brews You Can Use IV

> Japanese beer maker Asahi plans to give away 5000 personal bartending bots, each of which can store up to six cans of beer in a refrigerated compartment within its belly. At the push of a button the simple robots will open a can and pour the chilled contents into

Reefer Madness

The cult classic is available at Google Video. Just click here [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1714653651063948142&q=reefer+madness] and watch. Kinda funny.

Being In Love

> To be madly in love might be exactly that–madness. The term “lovesick” is surprisingly accurate, claims a cover story in this month's National Geographic magazine, citing research published over the last several years. > People experiencing romantic love have a chemical profile in their brains similar

Celebrating Gluttony

Where sin isn't condemned, it is celebrated. Eight people ordered and ate a 100-paddy burger, with cheese [http://whatupwilly.blogspot.com/2006/01/in-n-out-100x100.html]. The story is flying around the Internet now. It's a kid thing, and relatively harmless as far

Fessio Revises

Fr. Joseph Fessio earlier said that B16 doesn't believe Islam can be reformed. It raised a lot of eyebrows (though I tend to agree with such a belief). Fessio has modified his statement [http://www.chiesa.espressonline.it/dettaglio.jsp?id=45185&eng=y]. Earlier post [https:

Brews You Can Use III. Got Beer?

This marketing blogger says there might be a movement afoot to start a "beer is good" campaign [http://raybacon.blogspot.com/2006/01/beer-brotherhood.html], in order to take back the recent market share gains by spirits and wine. The blogger's biggest question: can the