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Eric Scheske

Grown Goths

Youth studies to predict adults must be the rage right now (see below): > [A]ccording to a new study, parents of goths will probably end up boasting about their son/daughter the doctor, lawyer or bank manager. > That is the surprising finding of Sussex University's Dunja

Trash Science

> Remember the whiny, insecure kid in nursery school, the one who always thought everyone was out to get him, and was always running to the teacher with complaints? Chances are he grew up to be a conservative. > At least, he did if he was one of 95 kids

Sprawl Me

Everyone hates urban sprawl, right? Nope. Link [http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=11948&R=EB9725ECE] . At least a few neo-cons think it's a good sign that we're losing agricultural land faster than a marine recruit loses his hair. Even though

Gay Adoption: Social Cons on the Offensive?

> In recent weeks a flurry of activity has focused new attention on same-sex adoption, which is being touted as the next battleground in the nation's culture wars. > Some states, including Ohio, are considering legislation to bar gays from adopting. When local church officials ordered Catholic

Bond

Interesting Christopher Hitchens piece in The Atlantic Monthly about Ian Fleming, who is described as "sadist, a narcissist, and an all-around repressed pervert." I've read a few Bond books, at the request of my wife, who's a big fan (no, she's

Chocolate

The chocolate review [http://www.chocolatereview.co.uk/]. It's not exactly good fare for Lent, but you might want to check it out on Sundays and after the 40 days is over.

Standby

I"ve always wondered how much all those digital clocks and other little energy things (e.g., night lights) cost me every year: > [A] typical microwave oven consumes more electricity powering its digital clock than it does heating food. For while heating food requires more than 100 times

Crunchy Cons

Re: Crunchy Cons [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400050642/thedailyeudem-20] I started it on Saturday and finished it on Saturday. I'm not going to write a detailed review. Rather, I offer these random thoughts. First, the good news. Dreher is a delightful writer and his

This is Art?

I read this on page 157 of Edward Epstein's The Big Picture: The New Logic of Money and Power in Hollywood. > Producers may also make product-placement deals that can further delay shooting. In the case of Natural Born Killers, for example, a producer arranged for the

Kill the Convert

They're not savages. It's the religion of peace: > An Afghan man is being prosecuted in a Kabul court and could be sentenced to death on a charge of converting from Islam to Christianity, a crime under this country's Islamic laws, a judge said