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# The Tuesday Eudemon
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/5432/
- Published: 2007-04-10T10:25:43.000Z
- Updated: 2007-04-10T10:25:43.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: TWE, #wpChunk

Evidence that America's TV watchers are, indeed, unintelligent: "[Predictions that DVRs would kill off TV ads appear to be off the mark: Nielsen reports that viewers watch 40 percent of the commercials they could skip](http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200705/calendar?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)." (Atlantic link)

[Religious irony in America](http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/070401/9qa.htm?ref=thedailyeudemon.com):

> With roughly 9 in 10 of its citizens claiming to believe in God or a Supreme Being, America is widely acknowledged to be the most religious of modern industrial nations. Yet when it comes to knowledge about religion, it ranks among the most ill-informed. While close to two thirds of all Americans regard the Bible as a source of answers to life's questions, only half can name even one of the New Testament Gospels. Similarly, in a land of growing religious diversity, only 10 percent of U.S. teenagers can name the world's five major religions.

A little off topic: Why is Judaism included in the list of five major religions? I assume we're talking sheer numbers, and Judaism simply doesn't have 'em: 14 million, compared to Buddhism, which comes in fourth place with 376 million ([this Wikipedia entry's numbers correlate with my general knowledge of the matter](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion?ref=thedailyeudemon.com#Present%5Fday%5Fadherents)). Even the pagans smoke 'em in numbers.

Good, though nauseating (too much "[gay ick](https://thedailyeudemon.com/5334/)"), piece at *The Atlantic* about the vibrant homosexual life in Saudi Arabia, "The Kingdom in the Closet." The story in a nutshell: Because Saudi women are off limits outside of marriage, "men" turn to people of Lot activities. Excerpts:

Reaffirmation that I don't want to go to prison:

> \[T\]he number of men in the kingdom who turn to gay sex is even greater. “They're not really homosexual,” she said. “They're like cell mates in prison.”

America has exported McDonald's *and* its gay bathhouse culture?

> “Guys romp around and parade in front of you,” \[a gay Filipino who re-located to Arabia\] told me. “They will seduce you. It's up to you how many you want, every day.”

The next excerpt is a little too descriptive for heterosexual tastes, but here goes:

> “You can be cruised anywhere in Saudi Arabia, any time of the day,” said Radwan, a 42-year-old gay Saudi American who grew up in various Western cities and now lives in Jeddah. “They're quite shameless about it.” Talal, a Syrian who moved to Riyadh in 2000, calls the Saudi capital a “gay heaven.”

> This is surprising enough. But what seems more startling, at least from a Western perspective, is that some of the men having sex with other men don't consider themselves gay. For many Saudis, the fact that a man has sex with another man has little to do with “gayness.” The act may fulfill a desire or a need, but it doesn't constitute an identity. Nor does it strip a man of his masculinity, as long as he is in the “top,” or active, role.

  
[ Ten grammar mistakes that make you look stupid](http://news.zdnet.co.uk/itmanagement/0,1000000308,39273376,00.htm?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). Great list, though I've committed number seven accidentally and number ten on purpose (for effect). The rest of the items are things that drive me nuts when I see them, and I see them frequently in the work of other lawyers who should know better (and who are also cocky and would argue that their usage is correct).