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
Eric Scheske
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
White Flight
From the opening lines of a Leonard Pitts syndicated column
[http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0511290195nov29,0,5641644.story?coll=chi-newsopinioncommentary-hed]
:
> Perhaps you remember white flight.
> That is, of course, the term for what happened in the '60s when blacks, newly
liberated from
Moose Me
Another feel-good story for the holiday season:
> Alaska inmates at a prison work farm are taking on a new assignment: butchering
the meat of moose struck by trains each winter along 68 miles of track.
> The meat will be processed by prisoners at the Point MacKenzie Correctional
Limbo Abolished?
> The Roman Catholic Church is preparing to abolish limbo, the place between
heaven and hell reserved for the souls of children who die before they have been
baptised.
I'm not qualified to write on the intricate theological issues of unbaptized
infants, but I know enough to realize