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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

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

PSA

Blogging will be light today. It's family and football day.

All Aboard the Hell Express!

> A gunman burst into a church service Sunday evening and robbed several members of the congregation, authorities said. > About 50 people were attending the service at Mt. Zion United Methodist Church in Bel Air when a man entered brandishing a handgun, the Harford County Sheriff's Office

More Mitt

Shortly after posting the story about Mitt Romney, I found this clever piece by Steve Bainbridge [http://www.professorbainbridge.com/2005/12/mitt_romney_for.html]: an assortment of quotes that indicate we may not want to trust a guy who doesn't smoke or drink. > "They

Mitt

James Taranto at the Wall Street Journal takes a look at whether Mitt Romney could win a presidential election [http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110007755]. Interesting, especially this: > A crucial question will be whether Mr. Romney's religion is a handicap. The Church of Jesus

China's Children

Where children aren't cherished and wanted, they're abused. A disturbing story out of China about waves of child snatching. LA Times Link [http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-childsnatch1jan01,0,4305055.story?coll=la-home-headlines] . Excerpts: > The reasons for the terrible