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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

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

Who's Shocked?

The Dutch just keep getting more and more depraved: Erotic furniture based on the female body . . . is the latest fad in Holland [http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1636045.html]. Warning: Erotic link.

How Long Can You Be "In Love"?

> The powerful emotions that bowl over new lovers are triggered by a molecule known as nerve growth factor (NGF), according to Pavia University researchers. > The Italian scientists found far higher levels of NGF in the blood of 58 people who had recently fallen madly in love than in

Expensive Card

> A 162-year-old Christmas card - one of the first ever printed - sold at auction Saturday for $16,000. > The hand-colored card, which shows a family celebrating around a table, is one of about 10 surviving from an original batch of 1,000 printed in 1843, auctioneer

Festivus for the Rest of Us!

What's next? The silver pole? > It worried Mitra Sen when pupils at her school were not allowed to take part in multicultural celebrations because their parents didn't want them to be exposed to different cultural and religious beliefs. > Afraid these kids would be deprived

Christmas Beatings Permitted

> Austria's traditional Christmas devils have been given police clearance to carry on smacking people's back-sides. > Locals in towns across the country dress up as either St Nicholas, handing out sweets to the good, or as the devil, handing out beatings to the bad.