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Eric Scheske

Epstein on Newspapers

I've made no secret of my opinion: Joseph Epstein is the best essayist in America. When he writes, people oughtta read, for the simple elegance of his prose, if nothing else. He has now written a great piece about the decline of the newspapers. Link [http://www.commentarymagazine.

Believable

Chicago Sun-Times article about teen sexuality [http://suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-kiss09.html]. One excerpt: > Holly Harris is a Wheaton-based teen counselor who last month was a featured speaker at a parent conference on "the secret lives of teens" held at Glenbard West

Porn Me

I didn't realize that last Saturday featured the 23rd annual AVN Awards, the pornography version of the Oscars. The AVN kind of reminds of a joke popular back in the 1980s: Q. How do you describe Cleveland? A. Detroit without the glitter. The corollary: Q. How do you

Encouraging Motion Sickness

> Stockholm is to introduce library book dispensers on the city's underground rail system to encourage commuters to read. > Automatic book dispensers are to be installed on station platforms, starting with test machines at Liljeholmen, T-Centralen and Gullmarsplan. > Commuters will be able to stick their

Computer Wife

Great, first my wife, now the screen. I'll never be able to hide a sour mood again. > Many computers are already able to see and hear. However, they have no way of telling whether their users are happy or angry. At CeBIT 2006, researchers will be presenting

Tourism Down

> Buddhism and other Asian belief systems hold that if bodies are not recovered and properly buried, their spirits restlessly wander the Earth. Many Asians believe that lost souls try to drag living beings into a spiritual limbo. [http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/01/0106_060106_tsunami_ghosts.html]

Frying Eyes

> Matsushita Electric Industrial, the maker of Panasonic products, said on Thursday it had developed a prototype of a 103-inch plasma display panel, the world's largest plasma screen [http://articles.news.aol.com/business/article.adp?id=20060105062809990009&cid=2288] . The AOL poll that accompanies the

Smut Revolution?

Stern debuted his Sirius show today, after leaving FM on December 16th. > Stern also introduced George Takei as his new on-air personality. Takei, who played Captain Sulu on the popular television show "Star Trek" and who last year publicly said he is gay, will serve as

Gay Louisiana Priest

> Deciding he had to practice the honesty he preached, a popular priest has told his family, his bishop and the people in his parish that he is gay. > The Rev. Jim Morrison said he had been working since October on the letter which he sent early this month

Killing Girls

> More than 10m female births in India may have been lost to abortion and sex selection in the past 20 years, according to medical research. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4592890.stm] The result is common-sensical: there's a lopsided boy-to-