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Eric Scheske

CE Podcasts

Catholic Exchange is running some good podcasts. They're only 4 minutes long and packed with information. Today's (11/8/05) is especially good, and most fitting for people who enjoy this blog's "dog children" posts. Link [http://podcast.catholicexchange.com/].

A 13-Year-Old Understands

From a Kathryn Lopez op-ed [http://www.nationalreview.com/lopez/lopez200511080812.asp]: > Recently, "Ask Amy" newspaper-advice columnist took a question from a woman in one of these marriages: "He's not abusive in any way, to the kids or me; I just don&

High Praise for Catholics

From the New Republic: > Evangelicals began aggressively reaching out to Catholics for intellectual aid. That movement reached its apotheosis with the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. With his addition to the ranks of Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, and John Roberts, all five members of

Major Passion

> The movie industry has been in the economic doldrums. ... But 43 percent of Americans are church-goers, many of whom find themselves mocked and their values undermined in the typical Hollywood fare. But when Christians found a movie they liked -- The Passion of the Christ -- they made it the

Outsourcing Porn

> Viewers tuning in for the evening news in India were shocked when they were left watching a Russian porn movie. > Angry residents in Kailaras, who wanted to watch an English-language news report, blame the mix-up on technicians from the Kailaras relay station. > They believe the

Oy! JPII

I'm not sure if this was published today or last spring (the dateline is ambivalent). Either way, I missed it: > A Manchester historian has claimed that Pope John Paul II was Jewish. > Yaakov Wise says his study into the the maternal ancestry of Karol Josez Wojtyla

The Jewish Elvis

This WaPo [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/06/AR2005110601271_2.html] article was good all around: An ultra-orthodox Jew is crooning to Israel's Amish-like clad Jews, and the parents are getting nervous. Almost sounds like a Weird Al Yankovich video. Excerpts:

Lama to Speak Anyway

> More than 900 scientists have signed a petition to prevent the Dalai Lama from presenting a lecture today in Washington. > The exiled leader of Tibet is scheduled to speak about the neurological effects of meditation at a three-day conference presented by the Mind and Life Institute. His

Steyn on Eurabian Wars

Mark Steyn has, as usual, a great piece at The Telegraph today about the Frog riots [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/11/08/do0802.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2005/11/08/ixopinion.html] . Excerpt: > The first country formally to embrace "multiculturalism"

Chirac Not Liberal Enough

Good ole New York Times. What's the problem in France these days? Chirac and his ilk aren't liberal enough [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/08/opinion/08tue2.html]. At one point, the editorial even seems to imply that an affirmative action plan would have helped