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Eric Scheske

Ghost Busters

I gotta believe Russell Kirk [http://www.nationalreview.com/miller/miller012303.asp] would enjoy this: South Jersey Ghost Research. It's an organization dedicated to investigating ghost claims. It's either a remarkably-elaborate fraud or really freaky. Link [http://southjerseyghostresearch.org/cases.htm]. Excerpt from one investigation.

Narnia Review

Barbara Nicolosi gives The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe high marks. Link [http://churchofthemasses.blogspot.com/2005/10/narnia-deep-magic.html]. Excerpt: > The movie is lovely. The print we saw had some special effects still in stages, but it didn't detract from the stunning vision

Ave Maria

Will Ave Maria Law School move to Florida? The whole thing is highly disturbing. From all appearances, everything seemed to be proceeding very well for the law school in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Why the (apparent) urge to go to Florida? I honestly don't know. But I read this

Screening for Gays

Time Online has an interesting article about the RCC's efforts to screen for homosexuality. Link [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1115662,00.html]. Excerpt: > Fifty years ago, Plante's sideline--he has done roughly 175 seminary evaluations since 1988, at about $450

Ya Think?

From the files of Dr. Obvious: An excerpt from a story about three white New Orleans cops beating a black man: > Although the [police] spokesman denied race was an issue, the fact that Mr Davis was African-American and the police were mostly white may result in accusations of

Beer Scramble

Beer manufacturers are scrambling to shore up their market. WaPo ran a feature piece on their situation. Link [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/08/AR2005100800172.html] . Excerpt: > You'll see products with flavors and colors that add individuality to bottled drinks and flexibility

Best Recent Films

Terry Teachout has resigned as the film critic of Crisis magazine. In his final column, he provided excerpts from what he "believes to be the 15 best American films of the past seven years." The excerpts are good, but the column isn't available on-line, and

Crazy Salaries

> [Gretta] Garbo's weekly salary in, say, 1931 was four times the average annual wages in the United States. (In 2002, the national median annual wage, $33,000, was at least fifteen times smaller than the weekly income of an equivalent movie star.) David Thomson, The Whole Equation

Porn Sunday

It's an event performed by an organization that calls itself xxxchurch.com. I can't vouch for it, but it certainly sounds like these people are onto something. If we're going to kill the scourge of pornography, I suspect it'll take something like

Historical Miniature: Papal Executioner

It's a piece by John Allen from a 2001 National Catholic Reporter, so I don't entirely trust it, and Allen draws a few conclusions that are stretched. But it's interesting: > Over the course of his 68 years on the pontifical payroll, [Giovanni] Bugatti