The Early Days of Consumerism
A man has set up a blog dedicated to pictures of vintage shopping malls from the
1960s and 1970s. Shallow, yes, but it's kinda neat. Link
[http://mallsofamerica.blogspot.com/].
Westland Mall in Detroit area:
Eric Scheske
Porn Generation Interview
David Horowitz's Front Page has an interview with Ben Shapiro, author of Porn
Generation. It's pretty lengthy, but worth a click. Link
[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18529]. Excerpt:
> Watching enough of this stuff does change kids' views and affect their
The E Meter
Everything and more that you ever wanted to know about Scientology's e-meter:
> [T]he 'e-meter,' or 'Electro-psychometer,' a “pastoral counseling device” used
by the Church of Scientology [is used] to detect, among other things, the
emotional state and thoughts of
Strangling Russia
Russia needs lots of small businesses to open shop. Unfortunately, small
businesses are opened by people without much money who can't afford to pay a lot
of legal fees to figure out bureaucratic nightmares. But that's the situation in
Russia. A maze of regulation is strangling
Brews You Can Use
We've been meaning to get back to New York:
> [A bill in New York] would create a tourism mechanism similar to the New York
State Wine Trail, a state program promoting tourism and marketing at state
wineries."We have over 50 breweries in New York state
Close Relationship Ain't Good Enough
Suzanne Fields has written a great op-ed that covers the basic issue in the
marriage debates: Good of the Offspring v. Close Relationship. Link
[http://www.townhall.com/columnists/suzannefields/sf20050623.shtml]. Excerpt:
> In "close relationship" law there's a moral equivalence between marriage and
Monkey Art
Paintings by Congo the chimpanzee sold at auction for more than $25,000 on
Monday. Link
[http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CHIMPANZEE_ART?SITE=NYNYD&SECTION=STRANGE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2005-06-20-16-47-57]
. Excerpt:
> The three abstract, tempera paintings were auctioned
Ships Passing in the Night
Get Religion has a good short piece that gives an example of the gay marriage
opponents talking past each other. It discusses an 8,000-word pro-gay article in
The New York Times Magazine by Russell Shorto. Link
[http://www.getreligion.org/?p=868]. Excerpt:
> Shorto writes, for
Internet Porn Recedes?
> Amended Section 2257 recordkeeping regulations [went] into effect at midnight
[Wednesday] tonight. The federal law requires website owners to keep records
documenting, among other things, that "every performer portrayed in a visual
depiction of actual sexually explicit conduct" is over the age of 18. . .
> Section 2257
More on .XXX
This is interesting. We haven't taken a position on the .XXX domain, but we were
inclined to approve of it since the First Amendment Absolutists tend to
disapprove of it (they fear that sites will be forced to register as .XXX, even
though the sites themselves don'