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Eric Scheske

Man Crush

I still hadn't fully recovered from whatever illness afflicted me this morning, when I read about "man crushes" in the Toronto Star [http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1131898685627&call_page=TS_Life&

Shovel Fighting

Kind of a slow day for the blog. I woke up this morning, feeling like I had the flu. After a few items of unpleasantness, it slowly passed, but now I'm dealing with a backlog at the office, occasional tremors from the earlier sickness, and a dearth of

Assault on Blacks

One writer sees California's policies as further assaults on blacks. Interesting analysis. Link [http://townhall.com/opinion/column/StarParker/2005/11/14/175236.html]. Excerpts: > [I]n the state of California, a 15-year-old girl has full and exclusive sovereignty over the production and destruction of

Foucauld

Preemptive strike: This was not motivated by the Eurabian Civil Wars, though I find the timing delicious: > A French monk who lived among the Tuareg people in the Sahara and was killed in an anti-French uprising in Algeria in 1916 was beatified by the Vatican yesterday, the last

Lesbian Bomber?

That woman who got caught in Jordan was a suicide bomber. Was she also promised 40 virgin women in heaven? Yeah, I know she was married, but what was she going to do with all those virgins? Make 'em into maids?

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee . . . If Coffee is Still Allowed

It amazes me that Europeans (and many Americans) continue to think Muslims can assimilate to Western Democracy. Yes, it is possible, and it's possible the Lions will win the Superbowl this season (I plan to continue using that comparison for the rest of this miserable NFL season). But

NYT on Narnia

Pretty good feature piece at NYT about LWW and Lewis [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/13/movies/13narnia.html?pagewanted=1&incamp=article_popular] , though I have two quibbles: > [T]here are some Hollywood observers who seem to believe that there is a good reason Lewis is

Cloning Humans = Dehumanized

From Secondhand Smoke [http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2005/11/trouble-in-threapeutic-cloning.html]: > One of the big issues that causes many feminists to oppose therapeutic human cloning is the distinct possibility that women, particularly the most destitute women, will be exploited for their eggs. . . > When S.

Historical Miniature: Johnson's Dictionary

It's not often you get Samuel Johnson in the MSM. This was great to see [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/10/AR2005111001663.html] : > Except on those rare occasions when new editions of existing dictionaries are issued -- the Oxford English Dictionary , Webster'

Planned Parenthood Stoops Even Lower

> Planned Parenthood has a new marketing strategy for their abortion services: the cross of Jesus. According to a report in the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader [http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/13138780.htm?source=rss&channel=kentucky_news] , Planned Parenthood's national chaplain, United Methodist Ignacio