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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

A Story for Your Children

Having troubles getting your children to eat properly. Try this story [http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006020536,00.html]: > A lad who only ate chips, toast and baked beans was killed by his junk diet – aged just 20. > After years of unhealthy eating, Scott Martin&

WWW III

Future histories are in vogue. The writers of these pieces look at today's current events and then write as though calamities that could happen tomorrow were predictable, yet we're living in those times now and we don't see the calamities coming. Eerie stuff. Last

TV Me

Ditch those Natural Family Planning manuals. I've found them nearly worthless. Don't get me wrong. NFP is 99% effective, just like its advocates say. Unfortunately, most guys have relations with their wives more than 99 times every two years. The result? You can do the math

No F'in Alito?

I missed this yesterday. This wasn't the Dem I expected to object to a filibuster: > Prospects for a filibuster to try to derail Samuel Alito's confirmation to the Supreme Court all but died yesterday when a key swing Democrat, Dianne Feinstein, came out against it.

Abortion Counseling

Due to time constraints, I haven't been able to engage in my normal on-line review of the country's leading newspapers, so I missed a story in the New York Times yesterday about after-abortion counseling [http://nytimes.com/2006/01/16/national/16abortion.html?hp&

Golden Globe Results

Johnny Cash was gay, at least according to the results of the Golden Globes last night. With a few exceptions, only gay-themed movies won anything: > "Brokeback," which has wowed critics and found a sizableaudience at box offices with its homosexual love story, walked off with four

Misc. 1.16.06

The fury over the Steelers/Colts call picked up a little steam. The Steelers' Joey Porter accused the refs of cheating. The NFL moved to do damage control, saying that the call rests within the ref's judgment (thanks for the enlightenment, NFL). The sports commentators who depend

Brace Yourselves

A great article from National Catholic Register about the upcoming spate of Da Vinci Code knock-offs. [http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=18320]

Muslim Catholics

> An Islamic campaign group has called for a Catholic primary school to be based on the Muslim faith. > The Campaign for Muslim Schools said 90% of pupils at St Albert's Primary, in Pollokshields, Glasgow, were Muslim. > Osama Saeed, co-ordinator of the alliance of Glasgow&

Carrey and Caffeine

> Jim Carrey has never been happier after embracing a healthy lifestyle and cutting his caffeine intake considerably [http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/carrey%20happier%20after%20cutting%20back%20on%20caffeine] . Good, now maybe he'll stop that annoying shtick that they call "cting."