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Eric Scheske

But Rocky Balboa was Catholic

The magazine probably has a point, but it'd come as a shock to generations of Irish and Italians who used to train in city gyms: > A leading Catholic magazine has described professional boxing as "a legalised form of attempted homicide", driven by "cruel"

Emotional Bullying

Stop whining about it. Give your kid a stable and warm family environment that always accepts him, tell him there are such things as "jerks" and "idiots," and teach him how to scoff. I would think that would take care of 80% of the problems, even

What Crank School is This?

A fundamentalist Christian crank or civil libertarian crank? Both tend to be equally humorless: > The Washington Post says the [Hylton High School] band had added "The Devil Went Down to Georgia," by the Charlie Daniels Band to its play list for an upcoming guest appearance at the

More American Ambition

Top of the Class: How Asian Parents Raise High Achievers - and How You Can Too: This new book by two successful Korean women tells Americans why Asians are so successful. Based on this review [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/16/fashion/sundaystyles/16TOP.html], it sounds like the book

Celebrate: The Nightmare is Ending

The nightmare will be replaced with something else, but I'll take my pop culture condolence wherever I can find it: > Television industry insiders in America are quietly acknowledging this weekend that a trend long predicted but never quite proven may at last be coming true: the appetite

American Girlcott

A boycott looms. American Girl is dismayed that their innocent support of a pro-abortion/pro-lesbian group could be twisted to serve political purposes. I know where they're coming from. I was dismayed to see people construe my contributions to the KKK as some sort of racist

Nazis and Gang Bangers Don't Mix

Nazis gather to protest against inner-city gangs. What could possibly go wrong? > A crowd protesting a white supremacists' march Saturday turned violent, throwing baseball-sized rocks at police, vandalizing vehicles and stores, and setting fire to a neighborhood bar, authorities said. . . > At least two dozen members

Another Atheist Shows His Idiocy

> To millions The Chronicles of Narnia are a childhood tale of wonder and triumph now made into a film that could inspire millions of children to read. To others, including the celebrated fantasy author Philip Pullman, they are stories of racism and thinly veiled religious propaganda that will corrupt

The Russian Icon

By the time Russia embraced Christianity through the Eastern Orthodox Church, the theology was already highly developed. Russia took the highly developed theology and enthusiastically embraced its conclusions without necessarily absorbing its rationale. The result was a somewhat unorthodox Russian Orthodox Church. They produced some wild saints and some unique

Something for Sunday Morning

> The soul that looks up towards God, and conceives that good desire for His eternal beauty, constantly experiences an ever new yearning for that which lies ahead, and her desire is never given its full satisfaction. Hence she never ceases to stretch herself forth to those things that are