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Postings often become a little more cerebral on the weekends, mostly because current news items worth posting slow down, thus requiring us to find other material, but also because we welcome the opportunity to offer different fare. Blog readership drops by about 30% Friday through Sunday, so if we'

Riesling Friday night. Yes, it might be more of a girly wine, but that's all right. Eric walked downtown yesterday afternoon to his favorite shop and picked up a couple bottles of wine, including an inexpensive Riesling. He opened it when Mrs. Scheske went swimming, leaving him with

Long-time readers of this blog may remember our extended review of the Penguin Book, Cannibal, about the German maneater, Armin Meiwes. At the time, we mentioned that he received a mere eight-year sentence and had a lucrative movie deal in the works. This story [http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?

Here's another article (this time, the New York Times) about the conservative vanguard that marches forward after JPII's death. LINK [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/14/international/worldspecial2/14youth.html?oref=login] . Two excerpts: > No matter who is chosen as the next pope, John

The Dawn Patrol has a pithy post about the sex-ed battle raging in Maryland. It's so good, we have shamelessly copied the whole thing below, but we're not going to provide her links. If you want those, go see her site. LINK [http://www.dawneden.com/

A tax fact you won't see anywhere else on Tax Day 2005: A married couple filing jointly that has seven minor children can reasonably expect to be able to earn $90,000.00 without owing any federal income tax. There could, however, be a small alternative minimum tax

"A gutsy Staten Island mom helped cops catch a serial kiddie flasher by chasing down the sicko - who turned out to be a city teacher, police said yesterday." LINK. [http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/300133p-256884c.html] "Guidance counselor Samantha Solomon's alleged extracurricular relationship

You can't judge a book by its cover, but we're gonna endorse this publication based on its title. It's Catholic Men's Quarterly, a journal apparently devoted to being a man and Catholic, but its site doesn't give a lot of

"Lawmakers in a western Russian city have called for authorities to rename streets after Josef Stalin and restore memorials to the Soviet dictator." LINK [http://www.nynewsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-russia-stalin,0,5951689.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines] . We gotta believe a similar measure will soon be pending

The West Virginia legislature has passed a bill to make English the official language of the state. The governor will sign it. LINK [http://www.usenglish.org/inc/news/preleases/viewRelease.asp?ID=157]. Excerpt: > With the passage of the bill, West Virginia will become the eighth state in