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Eric Scheske

Mean Big People

Maybe I'm just too Pelagian-ish, but it's hard to believe people like this actually exist: > The yellow brick road ended in guilty pleas yesterday in Brooklyn Supreme Court for a husband and wife who mercilessly harassed and abused their midget neighbors by hurling racial

Catholic Top Ten

Catholic Book Publishers Association's Current Top Ten Lists [http://peopleofthebook.us/2005/12/01/december-catholic-bestsellers/]: Hardcover 1. Mother Angelica Raymond Arroyo. Doubleday 2. The Seven Levels of Intimacy Matthew Kelly. Beacon Publishing/Fireside 3. The Rhythm of Life Matthew Kelly. Beacon Publishing/Fireside 4. Catechism of

Sigh, It's Sullivan

Like Amy Welborn [http://amywelborn.typepad.com/openbook/2005/12/for_my_health.html], I tend to stay away from Andrew Sullivan. Car wrecks are interesting, but when you see them every day, day-in-day-out, it gets tiresome. Sullivan sees everything through pink sunglasses, the type of guy

NYT Top Ten

NYT has released its "Best 10 Books of 2005." [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/books/review/tenbest.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1133443092-9b9x/U/8130himRj3oWdSw] I'd like to say I've read them all, but I'm afraid reality is just

Alito Wars

> As a Justice Department lawyer in the Reagan administration, Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. helped devise a legal strategy to persuade the high court to restrict and eventually overturn Roe v. Wade , the historic decision legalizing abortion. WaPo Link [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/

JPII Movies

Reminder: ABC's Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II airs tonight at 8:00. CBS's Pope John Paul II airs Sunday night at 9:00 and Wednesday night at 8:00. WaPo pans ABC's (a "dry downer") and praises

Middle Ages Criticism Going Down

More and more people are beginning to realize that the Middle Ages weren't dark at all. It's comforting, and the evidence will keep accumulating (because it's a fact) and get published. Yet in ten years, yahoos everywhere will continue to refer to the "

Those Crazy Scandinavians, Episode 258,901

> A Swedish drama student was fined 2400 crowns ($406.67) today for reading pornographic stories to a group of six-year-olds as part of a theatre project on children's sexuality. [http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17423648-38200,00.html] I don't

Priest Leaves

A priest resigns in protest of the RCC's stance on gay priests [http://bettnet.dyndns.org/blog/comments.php?id=P5847_0_1_0]. I don't get it. Skylstad says the directive applies to heterosexuals, too [https://thedailyeudemon.com/3192/]. Why are these homosexuals upset? Earlier

Far Out

Great news! I'm a blogger/writer. That makes me the creative sort, right? This is like a license to fornicate: > Talk about creativity. Professional artists and poets hook up with two or three times as many sex partners as other people, new research indicates. Now I just