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Eric Scheske

Giving It Away

George Will takes apart Congress' plan to give every American household money in order to deal with the April 2009 end of analog TV broadcasting. Even though 85% of all television households have cable or satellite services already (with the result that changes in TV broadcasting don't

ACLU Turmoil?

According to the New York Times, [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/08/national/08aclu.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5094&en=0ba4ebfa42ab9697&hp&ex=1134104400&partner=homepage] the ACLU is experiencing turmoil. Its executive director (Anthony D. Romero) is allegedly too concerned with fundraising and

Serial Killer Series

HBO is redy to push the envelope again, this time with extreme violence. The 13-part mini-series starts tonight: > Epitafios is as gripping as its murders are ghastly, a spiraling reverberant circle of horrors that keeps widening as the bodies pile up (more than two dozen killings by

Muses

Sometimes the muses talk to me. Sometimes they don't, and I need to coax them with a few beers. This site may help me understand why [http://webmuseart.com/muses/index.html].

England Against Christians

> A mother accused her daughter's school of discriminating against Christians yesterday after the teenager was suspended for refusing to take off a crucifix necklace. > Sam Morris, 16, was sent home from Sinfin Community School in Derby for breaking a school policy that bans jewellery. > Last

So Invent a Bigger Needle

This can't be a big deal. American technology has always gotten around the practice of fundamental virtues, like moderation: > It's just one of those wicked telling signs, one of those sad little cultural punches that make you cringe and sigh even as you stifle a

Odd Consumer News

> Capitalizing on shortages of Microsoft's new video-game console, several people have attracted bids as high as $600 or more on eBay this week by offering Xbox 360 boxes -- just empty boxes -- in ways that made it seem, without reading closely, that the items for sale were

No Comment

> A Peruvian woman spent a month in a male prison in Argentina after she was mistaken for a man. > And, when she was finally discovered and transferred to a women's jail, she asked to be transferred back.

Christmas or Xmas?

Archbishop Chaput of Denver has written a great little essay about the difference between Christmas and Xmas [http://www.catholicexchange.com/vm/index.asp?vm_id=6&art_id=31083]. Excerpt: > The world has an ingenious ability to attach itself to what Christians believe; tame it, subvert it,

Compassion Saves

But what good is better health if you can mock the infirm? > A recently published Brigham Young University study that examined the possible link between religiosity and better psychosocial health found that compassion was the active ingredient in the relationship. > Patrick Steffen, lead author of the study and