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Eric Scheske

Oh, Woody

Another aging celebrity says the fame and fortune doesn't help an existential thing: > Woody Allen says he has no regrets about his life, and actually cherishes the moment former lover Mia Farrow discovered secret nude photos he'd snapped of her 21-year-old adopted daughter

A Call for FDR Court Packing

Ruth Marcus at WaPo laments the lack of diversity on the Supreme Court [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/31/AR2005103101385.html] : > [I]magine an all-male, all-white Supreme Court. No president looking at a high court vacancy would consider that acceptable in this

NYT on the C5

> A Catholic majority on the nine-member court would be a significant historical shift. Until 1988, there had been no more than two Catholic justices at once. And for most of the court's history, there was typically only a single Catholic. > "This would add a

Perhaps John Wesley Can Rest Peacefully Again

> In a pair of decisions that bolstered conservatives, the highest court of the United Methodist Church defrocked an openly lesbian minister yesterday and reinstated a pastor who had been suspended for refusing to allow a gay man to become a member of his congregation. NYT Link [http://www.nytimes.

Halloween Spreadsheet

Giving the Arabs another excess to hate: Alex: 220 Abbie: 280 Jack: 250 Michael: 165 Meg: 150 Max: 100 1,165 pieces of candy for the Scheske clan. (Numbers are approximations, based on a quick count and tampering check.)

Call Me a Feminist

About Face appears to be fueled by feminists, but I strongly sympathize with their concerns: > [M]arketers are never going to show an ugly slob in an ad because no one wants to see a slob and we all aspire to something greater. But if all we see are

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