Kiosk Reminder
Just a reminder: The TDE Kiosk has been up for almost two weeks now. There are
some interesting posts.
As a new feature, the Kiosk needs publicity. These reminder notices will
continue sporadically for about a month.
Eric Scheske
A Look at Looks
The Wilson Quarterly has a lengthy essay about Americans' obsession with
appearance. It has a lot of current studies and analysis. Link
[http://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=wq.essay&essay_id=135758]. Excerpts:
> In general, how we look communicates something about how healthy we are,
T-Shirts
Perhaps you've seen them on the Internet: advertisements featuring attractive
young women wearing T-shirts for conservatives. We find many of them tiresome,
but this one cracked us up, so we're passing it along:
eBay Ecstasy
Greg Perry at Lew Rockwell is publishing a three-part series on eBay, covering
its greatness and its problems. Here's a link to the first installment
[http://www.lewrockwell.com/perry/perry13.html]. Excerpt:
> Over 475,000 people now make a full-time living from eBay alone.
Documentary on Pollution
We think most documentaries are trash. They lull people into thinking they're
learning when they're not. But a documentary to start this Sunday might be the
trashiest yet. Link
[http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050803/ap_en_ce/ap_on_tv_hugh_hefner;_ylt=AsKbsrcYqeeFkAAyiSWmUU1xFb8C;
Even the Frogs Are Showing Guts
> France has expelled two radical Islamist leaders in the wake of the London
bombings and plans to round up and send home up to two dozen more by the end of
the month, the interior ministry said yesterday.
> Underlining the difference in approach between London and Paris, a
Abortion Plus One Day?
Heck, the way Germany is going, this women will be their Rosa Parks:
> German police are holding a woman suspected of manslaughter after the bodies of
nine new-born babies were found buried in a garden.
Link [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4737641.stm].
The (In)Security Insanity Continues
The ACLU is filing suit against NYC's random subway searches.
> The lawsuit, to be filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan, contends that
the searches are "virtually certain neither to catch any person trying to carry
explosives into the subway nor to deter such an effort.
Defending Kirk
American Spectator apparently ran an article critical of Russell Kirk's ghost
stories (occasioned by the recently-issued Ancestral Shadows: An Anthology of
Ghostly Tales
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/080283938X/thedailyeudem-20]). We're a
fan of Kirk's fiction, so were glad to
Proving Sin
An advertising company came up with a unique way to convey the message for a
client in the security business. Link
[http://experiencethemessage.typepad.com/blog/2005/08/steal_this_bill.html ].
Excerpt:
> This billboard gets interactive with consumers in a very unique way -- it makes
them steal. That&