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Eric Scheske

But If They Were Gay Drug Dealers . . .

. . . they would have been protected and the righteous crowd dispersed with tear gas: > Police in Inuvik had to escort eight men out of the town last weekend after a mob threatened to remove the group from the community by force. > Police say they defused a potentially violent situation

Eric Scheske Can Barely Handle One

Interesting piece about the impact of polygamy on Islam's terrorism. Link [http://www.taemag.com/issues/articleID.18649/article_detail.asp]. Excerpt: > What differentiates Islam from the world's other great religions–Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism–is that it sanctions and practices polygamy. How did

Monsters, Inc.

If you haven't read about the sentencing of 62 raging pedophiles in Frances, you can get details here. Link [http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1744877,00.html]. Warning: It's nasty and disturbing. We won't cut-and-paste anything

Giving Us the Important News

Do the networks dumb us down, or do we dumb-down the networks? It's probably a symbiotic thing: > The real failure has been television's. According to monitoring by the Tyndall Report, ABC News had a total of 18 minutes of the Darfur genocide in its

Drinking Made Boring

We think Dante has a circle in hell for these types: > Alverson's researchers found that students reveal alcohol as a ritual accessory to group behavior. Exclusive brother- or sister-only Greek house meetings accompanied by alcohol help members shed tension before the cross-gender interactions of post-

Those Crazy Jesuits!

Santa Clara University (link [http://www.scu.edu/]) continues to sponsor its drag show as part of Queer Awareness Week. Link [http://www-acc.scu.edu/clubs/GALA/DRAGEDUCATES2.htm]. Excerpt from promo (rhymes with . . . nevermind): > Primarily, the Drag Show/Lip Sync is an event that serves to advertise

Dry Again, Wet Again

Interesting article about the local option: to allow alcohol in your town or not. Link [http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0727/p11s01-lihc.html]. Excerpt: > Hundreds of counties remain dry, [Sociology Professor David] Hanson says. Although the temperance movement of the late 1820s was rooted mainly in the North,

Drunk Women Drivers

> Two women who took turns steering a broken-down vehicle face drunk driving charges after their slow-moving car crashed into a parked car. . . > Authorities said the women were operating the vehicle while intoxicated - even though the car's engine wasn't working. > A prosecutor

Crazy Amos

> Callers complaining about loud music coming from a buggy led deputies to charge a 19-year-old Amish man with stealing house numbers and flower pots. David Byler was charged with theft and underage consumption of alcohol, both misdemeanors. Link [http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BUGGY_ARREST?

Kill Miniature Golf!

We didn't realize it, but the feds have passed regulations that will require miniature golf courses to be handicap-accessible: no hills, no obstacles. The old miniature golf courses can stay the way they are . . . until they need to rebuild a hole, then it will presumably have to