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Eric Scheske

Hear, Hear!

My seven children will be glad to hear it: > Large families need society's support, Pope Benedict XVI told his weekly audience on November 2. > A large family, the Pope remarked, “constitutes a witness of faith, courage, and optimism.” Moreover, large families provide wealth to society, “because

Danica Patrick Fans Have a Place to Go

> A British new media company has launched what they claim is the world's first gay motoring website. > TopGayer.co.uk is dedicated to providing the gay community with news, information and reviews on the motor industry. > TS Media, owners of Queernetwork.co.uk, have launched

Fecund Women More Attractive?

Man, my wife must be bloomin' gorgeous: > The latest study suggests women with attractive faces tend to have higher levels of the sex hormone oestrogen, which indicates that features such as large eyes and lips are linked to higher fertility and make women appear to be more attractive.

Google Library

I'm highly interested in Google's Library Project, though I've never understood the fuss--either "pro" or "con." The Google Library will have snippets from all books in three world-class libraries (and the UM Grad library is world-class; I

Dog Radio

Common theme: Fewer children and more animals means more human-like treatment: > Ms. Harris is a D.J. on DogCatRadio.com, a new Internet radio station for pets. Now dogs, cats, hamsters and parrots can keep the anxiety, the loneliness, the restlessness at bay while their owners are out.

Get Out the Hedge Trimmers!

> The Vatican's number two education official predicts that Pope Benedict XVI will follow a path of "evangelical pruning" of secularized Catholic colleges and universities, declaring them no longer Catholic. > Archbishop Michael Miller, secretary of the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education and former president of

The WoMen

Syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker questions Maureen Dowd's assertion that men don't want to wed smart and successful women [http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0511020035nov02,1,3738820.story?coll=chi-news-hed] . Excerpt: > Men haven't turned away from smart, successful women because

Sumo Mania

The world's grossest sport is no longer confined to the Japanese. Non-Japanese are making inroads in Japan, and the sport is being exported. WaPo [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/02/AR2005110202968.html] Link. Excerpt: > [T]he last Japanese grand champion of

Bible in the Political Belt

Jennifer Moses at WaPo tries to make sense of the role of religion in contemporary political life [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/02/AR2005110203188.html] . Based on this piece, she has a few hopelessly cliched and wrongheaded ideas about religion (e.g., "religion incites

Ten Catholic Changes at Supreme Court

A reader sends this along. It's already hit quite a few blogs, but I'm cutting-and-pasting it, in case any of my readers haven't seen it yet: > As David Bernstein points out today in this post on The Volokh Conspiracy, the confirmation