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Eric Scheske

No Rap for Gangs

> Dutch authorities are playing loud and annoying Christmas carols in public areas to keep teenage gangs off the streets. > Charlois Council in Rotterdam have started blasting out the Dutch children's carols from a barrel organ at the Zuidplein underground station. . . . > A council spokesman said all

Taking Christ out of Christmas

First Target, now these guys: > Willow Creek Community Church, one of the largest churches in the Chicago area, will be closed on Sunday, Dec. 25--because it's Christmas. > Although thousands of the faithful usually flock to the South Barrington church and its satellites on Sundays, Willow

Nature's Way?

Is this nature's way of helping those who overindulge? > Coffee and tea may reduce the risk of serious liver damage in people who drink too much alcohol, are overweight or have too much iron in the blood, researchers reported yesterday. WaPo Link [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-

Team Prayer

The Washington Times on the issues surrounding team prayer at sporting events [http://www.washtimes.com/national/20051206-120421-2274r.htm]. Excerpt: > The Fellowship of Christian Athletes has groups at 8,000 junior high schools, high schools and colleges throughout the country, reaching 350,000 student-athletes, says Dan

More Wikipedia

As a follow-up to my earlier post about Wikipedia [https://thedailyeudemon.com/3236/]: > Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia to which anyone can contribute, is tightening submission rules after a prominent journalist complained that an article falsely implicated him in the Kennedy assassinations. > Wikipedia will now require users to

HBO Funding Fleiss

An article in Newsweek strongly implies that HBO is helping provide the seed funding for Heidi Fleiss' new stud farm [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10313009/site/newsweek/from/RSS/]. > Even when her business partner, a prominent Nevada brothel owner, backed out last month, Fleiss vowed to

Rare Admission

From E.J. Dionne (no friend of pro-lifers) column in WaPo [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/05/AR2005120501547.html] this morning: > Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has said that the court overreached in Roe . In his indispensable new book, "Radicals in Robes: Why

Caucasian Terrorists

Chilling story in NYT this morning about the female suicide bomber [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/06/international/europe/06brussels.html?hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1133867048-/dLheT+90fvNzjIX9M/4Zw] . She was born in Belgium, raised Roman Catholic, got involved in drugs and men, started cavorting with Muslim

Greydanus on LWW

The web's best Catholic reviewer discusses Narnia [http://www.decentfilms.com/sections/articles/2636]. Two excerpts worth noting: > 1. Though widely referred to as “allegories,” the Narnia stories are actually something different. Real allegory, like Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, uses each character, place and

Misc. 12.05.05

We did a McLuhanite experiment with our three oldest boys. They had been spending increasing hours playing X-Box and Gameboy, despite our standard restrictions. There was always an excuse: friends coming over, cousins in town, etc. Their behavior became wretched, so we banned all games for a week, then