And Pete Singer Would Say . . .?”Kraft Foods, the No. 1 U.S. foodmaker, will stop making its Road Kill candy after consumers and animal-rights activists complained about the sweets shaped like flattened snakes, chickens and squirrels and marked by tire treads.”Road Kill, part of Kraft’s Trolli Gummi line, has been on the market since [...]
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Saturday, February 26th, 2005
The Tinsel ClothingWe’re surprised there’s not more talk about the Academy Awards and Hollywood Boulevard. Hollywood Boulevard is one of the most crime-ridden and drug-infested areas of Southern California. According to the morning DJs on WLS in Chicago, they’ll need to roll out extra red carpet to cover all the syringes. Hollywood Boulevard is so [...]
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Saturday, February 26th, 2005
The Weekend EudemonEffectively IneffectiveEric Scheske received a fair amount of hate mail from natural family planning advocates when he–in the throes of his wife’s fourth, then fifth, then seventh unexpected pregnancies–expressed doubts about NFP’s effectiveness. Writing in Gilbert Magazine, for instance, he said, “I’m always floored by the NFP literature that claims NFP is just [...]
LewWe’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 Brain” Ventura, and you’ll know what we’re talking about). [...]
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Friday, February 25th, 2005
Mead MeThey 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 to us, with the exception of the alcohol that [...]
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Friday, February 25th, 2005
Everipody’s Talkin’ At MeAndrew 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 much dead (and I’m in no way the first to notice that).” His piece [...]
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Thursday, February 24th, 2005
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, the principal believed that “the article would be disruptive, especially the week before students tackle the reading, math and science sections of the FCAT” (easy folks; it stands [...]
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Thursday, February 24th, 2005
St. Jude’s Chapel of HopeWe 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 wholesome as ever. Kinda like watching the Lawrence Welk Show.The [...]
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Thursday, February 24th, 2005
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 Kansas woman whose baby was cut from her stomach. We’re [...]
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Thursday, February 24th, 2005
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 the piece raises an interesting angle. Busting [...]
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005
Issue XIIWell, 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 enter the blogosphere.Despite our satisfactory results, we’re not convinced we can [...]
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Sunday, February 20th, 2005
The Weekend Eudemon – SundayWe Thought It Was a JokeAccording 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 U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has apparently begun [...]
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