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Eric Scheske

Credit Street

The New York Times points out this morning [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/national/11credit.html?hp&ex=1134363600&en=ab89cbe431f36eb0&ei=5094&partner=homepage] that people who file for bankruptcy are inundated with credit card offers (it's always been this way,

Maonster

WaPo runs a review of MAO: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/08/AR2005120801641.html] . According to the review (and others I've seen), the book details Mao's atrocities and shows that he was

Odd Coincidence

Last night, I dug up the quote from JPII that I ran for this week's "Something for Sunday Morning" post. This morning, I ran across WaPo's review of The Town that Forgot to Breathe, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/

Something for Sunday Morning

> In the era of technology our life risks becoming always more anonymous and merely a function of the production process. In this way, man becomes incapable of enjoying the beauties of the Creator and to see in them the reflection of the face of God. John Paul II

"Dyke" No Longer Derogatory

Sounds good to me. I'll now openly use the word "dyke" > A lesbian motorcycle group in San Francisco declared victory Thursday in their fight for a federal trademark for the name "Dykes on Bikes." > The U.S. Patent and Trademark office twice

Say "Good-Bye" to Blondes

A picture is worth a thousand words: A map of the Earth that shows countries by the size of their populations [http://www.odt.org/Pictures/poplcart.jpg].

Get Ready for a Caning

> A German teenager caught smoking in the toilet of a Singapore-bound airliner has ended up in jail after police found him with marijuana, a report said on Saturday.blockquote> [http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2005/December/theworld_December291.xml&section=theworld&

Drunk Doofus

> A drunk driver was arrested in Germany after he accidentally rang the police instead of a breakdown service when he had a flat tyre.

Natural Medicine

I believe there's a lot to be said for natural healing, though Seinfeld and Tor Eckman [http://www.seinfeldscripts.com/TheHeartAttack.htm] undoubtedly set the cause back twenty years with that hilarious episode ("The Heart Attack"). Nonetheless, I found this interesting, the yoga stuff aside: >

If It's Free, It's Me

Free Christmas coloring pages for your children [http://www.apples4theteacher.com/coloring-pages/christmas/index.html].