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Eric Scheske

India Revolution

According to this NYT article, India is on the brink of a sexual revolution. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/02/business/media/02playboy.html?ex=1293858000&en=48ecbc9cf9fcc214&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss] India with a sexual revolution? One like we experienced in the

Ads Affect Behavior

Yet people scoff when someone suggest that unwholesome TV can have an adverse effect on viewers: > Young adults as well as teenagers drink more under the influence of advertising for alcoholic beverages, researchers said on Monday. Link [http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060102/hl_nm/drinking_dc;_ylt=

Jump the Couch

> After scouring the soft white underbelly of the English language, from bathroom walls to the Internet, the editors of the Historical Dictionary of American Slang have chosen "jump the couch" as the Slang of the Year for 2005. . . . The phrase is taken from Tom Cruise's

Abusing Popular Credulity

Another good link [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1967413,00.html] from Welborn [http://amywelborn.typepad.com/openbook/2006/01/god_in_the_dock.html]: > An Italian judge has ordered a priest to appear in court this month to prove that Jesus Christ existed. > The

Literature and Limbo

Harold Bloom at NYT laments the pending doom of Limbo [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/01/opinion/01bloom.html?th&emc=th]: > Limbo has a rich literary history, in honor of which I hope the pope and his International Theological Commission will refrain from exiling this amiably

Smut Pioneer Dies

> Candy Barr, infamous 1950s stripper and stag film star once romantically linked to mobster Mickey Cohen and associated with Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby, has died. She was 70. LA Times Link [http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-barr3jan03,0,4111602.story?coll=la-home-headlines&

The Cruelty Begins?

> Winter begins now, when there's nothing left to look forward to and nothing left to look at. One final blessing on this side of the holiday divide is: At least there's not much daylight for looking. That's from Darragh Johnson's dirge

From My Readings

Concluding words from Christopher Dawson's Progress & Religion: > We are only just beginning to understand how intimately and profoundly the vitality of a society is bound up with its religion. It is the religious impulse which supplies the cohesive force which unifies a society and a culture.

From My Readings

On Rootedness > The Southerner always thinks of himself as being from somewhere, as belonging to some spot of earth . . . He is a Virginian, or he is a Georgian in a sense that I have never encountered in the Middle West–though Indiana Hoosiers may offer a fair approximation. . . The

Smut Subs

First, David Lee Roth was supposed to replace Howard Stern. Now this article says Paris Hilton will become the new Britney Spears [http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,4-2006000024,00.html]. It's kind of fun to watch the smuts realign and jostle for better positions. It