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Eric Scheske

Racially Neutral Hurricane

> The bodies of New Orleans residents killed by Hurricane Katrina were almost as likely to be recovered from middle-class neighborhoods as from the city's poorer districts, such as the Lower 9th Ward, according to a Times analysis of data released by the state of Louisiana. LA

Teen Cams

Highly disturbing piece at NYT this morning about voluntary child porn [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/19/national/19kids.ready.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5094&en=5eb58e4d773204ee&hp&ex=1135054800&partner=homepage] : youngsters with webcams who receive money and gifts from pedophiles for undressing

West Continues to Truckle to Those Who Hate Us

From Australia [http://www.sundaytimes.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,7034,17598854%5E2761,00.html] : > A WA hospital has scrubbed baked ham from its Christmas menu, fearing Muslim patients could be offended. > It has also overhauled its entire menu so that all meals are now halal

Real Life Brokebacks

The New York Times has gone out and found a few real, live gay cowboys in Wyoming and has painted the same old story: these are real men, normal men, rodeo men. There might be lots of them. But, of course, the rough-and-tumble homophobes in Wyoming repress such

Healthy Red Wine

The evidence seems to keep piling up. Now, if they could only come up with similar studies for potato chips and beer: > When your host offers you red or white wine at her annual holiday party this year, there may be a good reason to choose red. In a

Brokeback

Jimmy Akin takes apart the USCCB's gushing review of Brokeback Mountain. [http://www.jimmyakin.org/2005/12/the_brokeback_m.html] He's dead-on.

Santarchy

Between these clowns and the Krupniks [https://thedailyeudemon.com/3347/], the commercialization of Christmas is looking pretty good: > A group of 40 people dressed in Santa Claus outfits, many of them drunk, went on a rampage through Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, robbing stores, assaulting security guards

The Road to Hell is Paved with Gold

The U.S. mass upperclass is taking ostentatious consumption to new levels: eating gold and silver. They're shavings that are sprinkled on top of food and in drinks. The purpose? Pure show, like parsley, but about 1,000 times more expensive. They say it was popular in Renaissance

More Cuban Flight

A handful of writers I respect--and many that I don't--say Cuba is a fine place. Poor, but happy. And then I remember the waves of refugees that have repeatedly peaked during the past thirty years, and I just don't get it. The place must

Cruisin' into Scientology

Fascinating piece at the LA Times this morning about Tom Cruise and Scientology [http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-scientology18dec18,0,2963052.story?coll=la-home-headlines] . The group's most powerful leader, David Miscavige, went to great lengths to court Cruise, and Cruise is hitting the greatest