Sign in Subscribe

Eric Scheske

Time to Re-Think Last 30 Years of Gender Identity?

These reverse discrimination lawsuits are getting tedious, but I still enjoy them: > Maxime Goovaerts is a 100-pound, 5-foot-tall eighth-grader who didn't know field hockey was a girls sport when he signed up. After all, both boys and girls play in his native Belgium.

New In-house Pope Mobile

For use in the Vatican: Link [http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050923/ids_photos_wl/r2007962235.jpg]. Thanks, Open Book [http://amywelborn.typepad.com/openbook/].

Prison Action

The NYT this morning has run a story about a former prison inmate's lawsuit against prison officials. The suit alleges that the officials violated the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment by refusing to protect him. I try to keep this site reasonably urbane,

Something for Sunday Morning

> Branded enemies of the "progress of public spirit," [the Carmelite nuns of Compiegne] were killed as part of the [French] Revolution's systematic effort to efface all trace of the living God from France. > Priests and nuns were jailed and killed by the score, churches

Slash Back to the Other Extreme

Whatever doesn't turn you on: > David and Victoria are part of a growing number of people publicly declaring themselves 'asexual'. David even started an online discussion forum called the Asexual Visibility and Education Network. > "People just started pouring in from all over the

Odd Consumer News

Man, this is so cool, I'd take the risk of being mistaken for a transvestite: Purses made out of old hardcover books. Link [http://www.rebound-designs.com/]. Note: They cost about $175.00.

Historical Miniature

Thunderbird wine: > You won't find mention of Thunderbird at the Gallo company's Web page, or any reference to the companies [sic] roster of dÃ©classÃ© wines: Night Train, Ripple, Boone's Farm. Neither will you find mention of the Gallo company on the Thunderbird

Great Movie Review

James Pinkerton at Tech Central Station has written an excellent analysis of Corpse Bride. Link [http://www.techcentralstation.com/092305F.html]. Here are two excerpts, related but distinct enough to be emphasized separately: 1. > The film's production notes attest that CB is based on a "19th

Far Out

At the University of Michigan, I majored in History with an emphasis on classical studies. This is exciting for us nerds: > The tomb of Odysseus has been found, and the location of his legendary capital city of Ithaca discovered here on this large island across a one-mile channel

Abolish the Prisons?

The clever Gary North has written a nice piece [http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north407.html] about the prison system. Excerpts: > In the Bible, the only prisons are in the empires: Joseph in an Egyptian prison, John the Baptist in a Roman prison, Peter and Paul in Roman prisons.