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Lew We're repeatedly impressed with the folks over at Lew Rockwell. For a libertarian site, they publish a lot of insightful and intelligent stuff. Libertarian ideas have always appealed to us, but the amorality of their ideas always kept us at a distance (think Jesse "the No

Mead Me They say mead is making a comeback. If so, it'd be the comeback of the millennia. What is mead? Basically, honey wine. A drink made of water, honey, malt, and yeast. It pre-dates beer and grape wine, and it might be the oldest alcoholic drink known

Everipody's Talkin' At Me Andrew Sullivan, writing about the iPod world in the Sunday Times, opened his piece with this: "I was visiting New York last week and noticed something I'd never thought I'd say about the city. Yes, nightlife is pretty

A principal made news this week when she prohibited distribution of a high school newspaper that contained an article about sex and virginity. According to the story [http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2005/02/22/s1b_wellhigh_0222.html] , the principal believed that “the article would

St. Jude's Chapel of Hope We just got our March 2005 issue of Grit: Stories of American Life & Traditions. Most people remember it as the cheap little newspaper that boys sold for a nickel as a way to earn gum money. It's still around and

Two pregnant women were killed this week, one in New York and one in Texas. The New York slaying was apparently a lover's squabble. We haven't heard of any leads in the Texas case. Then there's the gruesome attack a few months ago on

The following piece is a little graphic. Written for a mainline Catholic publication, it was understandably rejected on grounds that the subject matter is too sexual and the tone a bit too strident. It's not the type of thing we like to present regularly on TWE, either, but

Issue XII Well, things have gone well for TWE. Our visitors/hits goals that we hoped to meet by the beginning of Spring have been greatly exceeded. Many thanks to y'all for visiting, reading, and forwarding TWE to friends and family, especially those who don't otherwise

The Weekend Eudemon - Sunday We Thought It Was a Joke According to a January Associated Press dispatch, an outfit called Rent-a-Priest supplies independent Catholic clergy to perform Mass on cruise ships, even though the reason why some are independent is that they're no longer in good standing.

The Weekend Eudemon ”“ Saturday Welcome back to The Weekend Eudemon. You apparently made it here without the benefit of an e-mail reminder. We don't send them out on the weekends, primarily because we don't want to be a pest, but also because TWE (with the exception