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Eric Scheske

Say No(y) to Soy

> Greenpeace activists today chained themselves to the anchor of a ship off the northern coast of Poland as part of a bid to prevent it from offloading its cargo of genetically modified (GM) soy, the environmental group said. Link [http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,

The Internet Has Its Limits

> Albany police said 26-year-old Schelra Smoot didn't seem to care much whether or not he got caught when he posted an ad selling marijuana -- his ad specifically saying he wasn't afraid of the police. > Detective James Miller of the Albany Police Department

South Park Takes on Scientology

I don't know this blogger [http://oooohdark30.blogspot.com/2005/11/tom-cruise-needs-to-come-out-of-closet.html] and I didn't see South Park last night, but both sound pretty good (the poor grammar and spelling notwithstanding): > [F]or those of you who

Kill the Humans

Scoff if you want, but at least these guys are logically consistent with the way many of us Occidental folk behave and think: > Make no mistake about it, the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement isn't anti-child, it's more like anti-human. > The VHE is

Is God an Accident II

Pretty good analysis at AI Cont. regarding the Bloom piece (is God an Accident?). [http://the-american-interest.com/contd/?p=95] Excerpt from conclusion: > The problem here isn't with Darwin; it's with Dawkins (and Bloom, and, across the aisle, Intelligent Design boosters). He is

Violent Polygamists

> Senior French politicians have been accused of "blatant racism" after linking the suburban riots to polygamy among African immigrant families. > The head of the ruling centre-right party in the national assembly and an employment minister both suggested unruly teenagers from large, polygamous families had helped

Lavender Mafia

> Any examination of the sexual abuse crisis afflicting the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles leads inevitably to a bell-towered campus in the rolling hills of Camarillo: St. John's Seminary. . . > Several former students recall a licentious atmosphere at St. John's that might have

Is God an Accident?

One of the feature articles of December's Atlantic Monthly [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200512/god-accident] is a (ball park) 5,000-word essay entitled, "Is God an Accident" by Paul Bloom. Although written respectfully, the article tries to undermine religious faith by pointing to

Mary Spreading?

> They're wearing "Mary Is My Homegirl" T-shirts and bracelets, and not all of them are Roman Catholic. > Once mainly a devotional figure for Catholics, Mary and her role as a woman of God now are studied by Anglicans and other Christian denominations. "

King Alfred, Your Efforts Linger On

I don't have confidence in polls, but they have a little bit of value and are often interesting: > Most Britons describe themselves as Christian despite not attending church regularly, a BBC survey has found. > The poll taken for BBC News 24's Faith Day examines