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Eric Scheske

Brews You Can Use II

Ten reasons beer is better than wine: > 10. Beer doesn't rely on a piece of wood to give it character. > 9. The French don't set the standard for beer-making and food-pairing. > 8. Beer is richer, better looking and has a better

Brews You Can Use

> Most people who seek treatment at hospital emergency departments claiming their drinks have been spiked are simply drunk, a new study has found. Link [http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16685758-13762,00.html].

Terrible Ted

> Those who live lives of immediate gratification, Huxley thought, would not be able to bear solitude of any kind. As Mustapha Mond explains, "people are never alone now. We make them hate solitude; and we arrange their lives so that it's almost impossible for them to

More Public School Fun II

This type of problem, however, isn't endemic to the "coercion x local moneys + federal requirement" formula described in my last post. This is just an original sin thing: > When we heard about the latest scandal embroiling a U.S. middle school, well, we assumed it

More Public School Fun

Many good Christians support the whole concept of public schools. It boggles my mind and strikes me as a lazy holdover from the schools' halcyon days in the 1950s and 1960s. The types of abuse described in the story below naturally crop up in a machine that is built

Divorce Ain't Just the Couple's' Business

> Are children raised outside of intact marriages at increased risk for crime and delinquency? iMAPP's latest policy brief, "Can Married Parents Prevent Crime? Recent Research on Family Structure and Delinquency 2000-2005," looks at empirical research from the United States published in peer-reviewed journals

Strider Wouldn't Be Ashamed

Lord of the Rings star Viggo Mortensen was once so hungry he ate a roadside rabbit that had been hit by a car. Link [http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/mortensen%20makes%20roadkill%20confession] .

What Good Are Ordinary Books . . .

. . . if you go blind? > [A] half-dozen Wiscosin librarians have posed semi-nude for a "Desperate Librarians 2005" wall calendar. Link. Excerpt: > Five middle-aged library directors and a 32-year-old assistant each put up $200 and posed provocatively, using oversize books to cover what

Part of Kennedy's Ongoing War Against the Church

> Culture & Cosmos also reports that a prominent Church prelate said he was furious that aid to private schools had been kept out of the package and he was especially angry that it is being blocked by "four Irish Catholic Senators." > The proposal for financial aid

Poor Fulton

The eponymous grandson has been a moral disgrace: > Reformed hell-raiser Charlie Sheen left a whole baseball team with endless wild memories, after throwing them a party at his house complete with prostitutes and porn stars. . . > Former Reds player Rob Dibble tells FHM, "During our championship season