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Eric Scheske

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

Celebrating Ghetto

We could see how some people could take offense . . . > A city press release that promised a ''Ghetto Style Talent Show'' and ''Watermelon Eating Contest'' during a summer camp picnic in the heart of Miami's black community drew sharp outrage

He's Catholic and Dangerous

The Roberts frenzy is now officially at level red. From this morning's WaPo [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/26/AR2005072602070_pf.html] : > Newly released documents show that John G. Roberts Jr. was a significant backstage player in the legal policy debates of

Rough Times for a Good Organization

The Boy Scouts is getting innovative in an attempt to bolster membership. They even have co-ed groups. Link [http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-sscoutsjul26,0,6997960.story?coll=sfla-news-front] . Excerpt: > Worried by a national membership drop of about 6 percent from 2000