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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

Christmas Wars

Article about the "Friend or Foe" legal campaign by Christian lawyers to protect the religious implications of the season [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/11/20/MNGVDFRH081.DTL] . I'm not entirely comfortable with the campaign, but I tend to

Rinpoche Boy

Have the Vegas odd-makers established a line yet on whether the boy is a fraud? > Thousands of pilgrims are pouring into the dense jungle of southern Nepal to worship a 15-year-old boy who has been hailed as a new Buddha. > Devotees claim that Ram Bomjon,

Logically Consistent

I like it. Call it, "The New European Church" or "Church of the Relativity." > A German brothel owner is planning to build his own multi-denominational church. > Bert Wollersheim, 54, who has over 50 prostitutes working for him, plans to preach frorm the pulpit

Misc. 11.20.05

Read this morning: "Only an imbecile could ever hold that freedom is the highest or indeed the only principle or end of life." Murray Rothbard, foremost libertarian thinker of the late 20th century. No intelligent libertarian would hold otherwise, but if you're dealing with redneck libertarians,

Dyin' to Die

From Secondhand Smoke [http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2005/11/more-ugly-truths-about-assisted.html]: > A Swiss assisted suicide organization called Dignitas has helped a depressed woman kill herself in Germany. True, the woman presented a fake medical report, stating she was very ill. But the head of

6-Day School Week

Mayor > Richard Daley says he believes Chicago Public Schools students get too much time off. He says he will push for a six-day school week, a shorter summer break or a longer school day [http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/local_story_324111749.html] . Great. More secularized and sterile public

One of the Most Novel Theories I've Heard

> Starting next week, pubs in Britain won't have to order drinkers out the door at the stroke of 11:00 every night. > The government argues it's the best way to stop a growing wave of violent behavior that erupts right after closing, reports CBS

Immodesty Redux

Both pro-choicers, I might add: > A busy time in the U.S. Senate, the "world's greatest deliberative body." Judging from the 2006 conference report, the Senate subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education -- Chairman Arlen Specter (R), ranking member Tom Harkin (D)

Pharm Land

Joe Queenan reviews Generation Rx [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/20/books/review/20queenan.html] at the New York Times. Excerpt: > Generation Rx contends that large drug companies have co-opted the federal government, seduced the medical establishment and mesmerized a temperamentally supine public into taking far more

iPod and Manners

George Will has a great op-ed in the Washington Post this morning [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/18/AR2005111802400.html] . The gist: In a society of entitlement and social autism, no one appreciates manners any more. > Sociology discerns connections, and there may be