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Eric Scheske

Thinking Really Fast

For those who missed news about the highly-respected Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Near: [http://www.upi.com/Hi-Tech/view.php?StoryID=20051229-090610-4704r] > Kurzweil's latest futuristic tome is the sequel to his last bestseller, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers

Chestertonian Poetry

A Chestertonian (fan of G.K. Chesterton) has dedicated himself to writing a new poem every day during 2006 [http://eveningisles.blogspot.com/]. I ain't no poetry expert and the year is awfully young, but it's a novel idea. I suspect it'll be worth

200 Hours?

This guy desecrates a Mass and he only gets 200 hours of community service? That's outrageous. Then again, liturgists have been desecretating it for 20 years, and they're not even prosecuted: > An 18-year-old Alice Springs man who streaked through a Christmas Eve mass

Conan on Trump

> Donald Trump is considering a run for president in 2008. He will find a running mate, then later dump her for a younger, hotter running mate.

Drug Me

Teenagers are geeked in Rhode Island (which just approved prescription marijuana [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060104/ap_on_he_me/medical_marijuana_3]): > Teenagers are taking more mind-altering drugs -- but under doctor's orders. > Drug prescriptions meant to counter depression, anxiety and mood or

Standing Up Against Secular Mores

St. Thomas University in St. Paul, Minnesota, told a co-habitating couple that they couldn't co-habitate during a student trip to Australia. The sulking couple refused to go at all. Now there's a campus debate raging. I'm more interested in the legality, which

Fund Raiser Idea

Might not be a bad idea. I'll have to float it by my children's parochial school principal: > Bake sales? Been done. Car washes? So 2005. And pop can drives can fall flat. So the Rev. Rick Oliver, pastor for the First Church of God in

Dogs as Child Substitutes, Episode 1,227,911

An award-winning pastry chef has opened a bakery that caters only for dogs in Paris [http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1671047.html].

666 Weddings

Neutrality is a fiction. When something ceases to be revered, it gets degraded. In this case, if it ceases to be a sacrament or otherwise blessed by the church, it tends to sacrilege: > Registry offices in Holland have been flooded with requests for couples who want to get married

College Ads

Slate takes a clever look at college advertisements during the bowl season [http://www.slate.com/id/2133433]. It's a nice sliver of the ridiculousness that has become higher education. From the conclusion: > The season's most memorable institutional spot won't be playing during