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Eric Scheske

Scalia and the C

Infuriating the multiculturalists (all thirteen of 'em): > Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, will be Grand Marshal of Manhattan's 2005 Columbus Day Parade, Lawrence Auriana, president of the Columbus Citizens Foundation, announced today. The parade, which is produced by the non-profit

That Crazy L. Ron!

> Katie Holmes' mission impossible will be giving birth without painkillers - or screaming. > That's because her fiancÃ©, "Mission Impossible" star Tom Cruise, is a Scientologist. > Practitioners of Scientology are against drugs but insist on "silent birth" because they believe it'

You Gay Too

You tar them as homosexuals, in hopes that they'll stop condemning homosexual acts. Isn't that kind of like labelling a Prohibitionist a drunkard in hopes that he'll stop preaching teetotalling? Of course, the former is far more humiliating, hence the strategy, I'm

U.S. Will Give Up Control of Internet?

According to The Guardian, we'll have to: > A number of countries represented in Geneva, including Brazil, China, Cuba, Iran and several African states, insisted the US give up control, but it refused. The meeting "was going nowhere", Hendon says, and so the EU took a

Brews You Can Use

We'll call it the Eagle and Child, crack open some pipes, and pretend we're Tolkien, Lewis, Williams, Barfield, and the others. > The pub is 40ft long, 19ft wide and 22ft high. It can be customised for use as a fully working pub, with room for

The Venerable Newman

I like those quirky historical bites. The Blog from the Core [http://weblog.theviewfromthecore.com/] offers this one: Today is the 160th anniversary of Newman's finishing of An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine. The Core Blog also reproduces the original advertisement from the book. Neat stuff,

Odd Consumer News

Old-time photos? Or something possessed? It looks like a picture of Aunt Gertrude, until you walk by it. Then it turns ghoulish. Link [http://www.hauntedmemories.com/]. Thanks, Boing Boing [http://www.boingboing.net/2005/09/30/morphing_ghoul_portr.html].

Relativism = Every Nut Deserves Respec. Episode 231,311

> A man who is fighting to get the words "under God" out of the Pledge of Allegiance was back in federal court Wednesday, making some surprising comments about the case. > Although the hearing was a procedural matter with no key rulings, Michael Newdow said that if

Mr. Bill Continues to Get No Respect

> A book to be published this month by a leading academic publisher, with a foreword by Mark Rylance, the artistic director of the Globe, will claim that the greatest plays and verse in the English language were written by Sir Henry Neville (c1562-1615). He was a leading Elizabethan

Marketing Abstinence and Marriage

It's worth a try, and this organization is trying. Campaign for our Children, Inc. [http://www.cfoc.org/videospots/] Last Spring, they ran a "Marriage Works" campaign. This Fall, they're doing a new version of the campaign, plus a campaign called "Pink"