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Eric Scheske

Sloppy Episcopalians?

The RCC isn't the only administratively-challenged church in America? > Administrators at a private Manhattan school admitted yesterday they never checked with church officials before hiring a former priest who allegedly molested a student in Central Park last week. > Episcopal authorities said the ex-priest, Bruce

This is Metaphysics 101

But if there is no God, all is matter because there was no non-material first cause. Maybe the pollsters didn't get into that much detail. > More Britons believe in ghosts than God, according to research. > A total of 2,012 people were polled on their

Five Catholics

From Maggie Gallagher [http://www.marriagedebate.com/mdblog/2005_10_30_mdblog_archive.htm#113076842581271164] : > David Bernstein on Volokh.com notes that Judge Sam Alito, if confirmed, will be the fifth Catholic on the Court, making it the first time a majority of Supreme Court Justices are Catholic. >

Healthy Chocolate

> After more than a decade of effort and a year of anticipation, Mars Inc. is finally rolling into stores with what it says is a healthy new sweet: a line of chocolate bars and chocolate-covered almonds. . . > [I]t is the glob of granola, rice and flavanol-filled

Halloween Fast Fact

> It's getting scary out there. More Americans than not – 48 to 45 percent – believe in ghosts, a CBS News survey found. > Women are the likelier true believers, 56 to 38 percent – and one in five Americans, or 22 percent, insist that they've actually seen

Time Change

I'm working on the return to standard time, but for now, the date/time stamp on posts will one hour ahead of the actual post time.

Blogging Ban?

I assume most everyone heard about the Catholic school that banned blogging. It turns out that the story was greatly sensationalized, and Dawn Eden has flushed it out [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/col/story/360528p-307208c.html]. Here's an excerpt from her site. It looks like things

College Finances

Must be why tuition keeps increasing and the quality of education keeps dropping: > College presidents are more preoccupied with financial issues than educational ones, according to a new survey by The Chronicle of Higher Education. NYT Link [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/31/education/31college.html].

Career Boost

Someone wrote a story about this? I would've thought it was a foregone conclusion. In a culture that celebrates the SI Swimsuit issue and Hugh Heffner, would you expect anything different? > B-list Hollywood celebrities from “it” girl Paris Hilton to actor Tom Sizemore are finding that,

Civilization Video Game

An author at Tech Central Station writes about a video game that even I would enjoy: > The fourth entry in the acclaimed Civilization series is based on the same premise as its three predecessors: you are a small, nomadic tribe in 4000 B.C. Your goal: rise to pre-