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Shacking Up and Shaking Out A few interesting items from the National Catholic Register that came today: 1. A study in Britain shows that unmarried couples with young children are five times more likely to break up than married couple families. Nearly one in two cohabitating couples split before their

Good Friday "His Cross has put its due value upon every thing which we see, upon all fortunes, all advantages, all ranks, all dignities, all pleasures; upon the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. It has set a price upon

The Sci-Fi of It All! We thought this story [http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=313952005] might have been a bad Monty Python spoof, but no such luck: "MPs will today recommend giving the go-ahead to couples to create 'designer babies' and allowing the experimental implantation

Friday's "Brews" You Can Use We weren't going to post any drinking news today, in light of Good Friday, but we find this story [http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20050323-0500-life-absinthe.html] fascinating, mostly because we know very little about this type of drink.

Another Alternative Lifestyle Well, it has happened. We always joked about punk rockers with their fishing tackle boxes hanging from their face: "If they wanna mess themselves up, why don't they get serious and amputate an arm? That's really messed up." It turns out

Holy Thursday In order to accomplish salvation in a manner that permitted human nature to cooperate in its own fulfillment, a man–Jesus–needed to undergo an ontological privation. Jesus would have to give his being in order to restore our being, analogous to dirt being taken from a hill

Honey, Who Shrank Our Daughters? You have a daughter going to college? Check out the last half of this article [http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2005/002/10.37.html]. It seems things have gotten worse at sororities since Eric Scheske frequented them (heh heh heh) in the 1980s, but

The Crowd in Front Will Run Faster PETA is sponsoring a “running of the nudes.” LINK [http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_24-3-2005_pg9_4]. Excerpt: “The annual 'running of the bulls' in the northern Spanish town of Pamplona could get some serious competition this

Just Shaking Hands When we heard that San Franciso had banned handshakes following female soccer games (LINK [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/03/23/BAGCTBTCDG1.DTL]), we assumed the post-game tradition had turned erotic. Turns out it's just the opposite: the girls

Hey, Placenta Head! While waiting for Mrs. Scheske to go through the labor game, Eric talked with the attendant nurses about birthing stories. None of the stories beat the one about the guy who wanted to take the placenta with him. He had heard it was a cure for baldness.