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Eric Scheske

Edgy Recruits

The Catholic Church is turning to Hollywood-marketing to recruit priests, and it just may be working. Link [http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050811-121555-3335r.htm]. Excerpts: > "If we can get high-school youth to hang a picture of a priest in their room, that's

The Bizarro St. Josephs?

> Research suggests that, as cases of teenage pregnancies, sexual infidelity and multiple partners increase, 1 in 25 fathers could unknowingly be raising another man's child. > With improvements in genetic testing, thousands of fathers every year are discovering that “their” child is someone else's. A

Odd Consumer News

Another good one from the Makezine blog: > Solar-powered Wi-Fi networks. Lumin's first-generation product is the LightWave AP-1000 solar-powered access point, which comes in two models, single and dual. The Pearl Street deployment utilizes four dual units, each of which is located out

Odd Consumer News II

We knew we were spending all that money on space exploration for a reason: tourism. > Space Adventures, a company based in Arlington, Va., has already sent two tourists into orbit. Today, it is to unveil an agreement with Russian space officials to send two passengers on a voyage lasting

Brews You Can Use

No, it's not Friday yet, but it's been a rough couple of days, so we're drinking early: > For more than 160 years the Trappist monks at Saint Sixtus monastery in Flanders have been producing a rich, dark-brown, beer renowned for its exceptional

Odd Consumer News

For you Tim Allen types: This grill can cook 240 hotdogs in three minutes. Link [http://www.gizmag.com/go/4397/].

Only $500?

Don't get discouraged. Just get someone at ESPN to buy into the idea that it's a sport (or, rather, an event that can be marketed), and they'll media-blitz the rest of America with its virtues: > The 12th annual U.S. Marbles Championship

Leno on Ostensible Anti-Terrorists

> As I'm sure you know, a number of Middle Eastern leaders have now come forward to say they are opposed to terrorism. Do you get the feeling they're not that sincere? It's kind of like those public service announcements when rock stars say,

Gosh, We Woulda Thought This Was a No-Brainer

But in Canada, can you be prosecuted for voting "yes" in such a survey, if you cite Canada's homosexual agenda as a reason? That's kinda hateful, isn't it? > More than one-third of western Canadians surveyed this summer thought it was

Cruise Almost Left Scientology?

Did he get to the part about Smurfette's identity as the terrible mother goddess? > About 10 years ago, after being introduced to the sci-fi writer L. Ron Hubbard's sect by ex-wife Mimi Rogers, Cruise had achieved the Operating Thetan III level of instruction