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Eric Scheske

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"

A Nice Thing

Perhaps tinged with a touch of vanity? Sure, but we should all be so vain: > Ruby Dickens says she doesn't need the money and wants to spread a little happiness. > Ruby has been approaching people in Liverpool for the past three days and offering them a

The Oprahfication of Judaism?

I have faith in Oprah. Don't ask me why, but I do. She won't fly: > Will Oprah join the kabbala cabal? > Madonna has been talking up the mystical form of Judaism to the already-spiritual talk-show queen for two years, in hopes that

Dead People Server

Another example of our culture's ongoing obsession with celebrity. This time, it's combined with our culture's twisted and ironic approach to death that ignores death as much as possible, except to embrace and celebrate it occasionally. The two extremes are related. I plan to

Katie

I'm pretty convinced now that Katie Holmes isn't following Humanae Vitae.