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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

Broken Tinsel

J. James Estrada at the Spero Blog weighs in on Tinsel Town's box office problem. Link [http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?idcategory=34&idSub=127&idArticle=2287] . Excerpt: > Last year, Hollywood ignored Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ at awards

Transgender Wars?

> Welcome to the Transgender Law and Policy Institute. We are a non-profit organization dedicated to engaging in effective advocacy for transgender people in our society. The TLPI brings experts and advocates together to work on law and policy initiatives designed to advance transgender equality. Link [http://transgenderlaw.org/

Hollywood's Twenty-Year Low

The melancholy bugle keeps playing for Hollywood. > A box-office jolt from the magic kingdoms of Kong, Narnia and Hogwarts will close Hollywood's year with some holiday cheer, though not enough to offset the biggest decline in movie attendance in 20 years. Link [http://aolsvc.news.aol.

25% Abortion Rate

From Australia [http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0%2C5744%2C17562237%25255E2702%2C00.html] : > The first national abortion figures show more than 84,000 pregnancies are terminated each year, or one in four pregnancies. Australia is the land of permissiveness. I thought as long as everyone

The Drag Folks

In his column this morning, George Will writes about drilling in Alaska. WaPo Link [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/14/AR2005121401933.html] . He makes this funny, but helpful, observation: > For some people, environmentalism is collectivism in drag. Such people use environmental causes and rhetoric

DJ Dylan

As the tiresome countdown to the uncensored Howard Stern continues, some good news comes out of satellite radio land: > [Bob Dylan] has signed on to serve as host of a weekly one-hour program on XM Satellite Radio, spinning records and offering commentary on new music and other topics,

Ford Back on the Gay Horse

Ford to renew commitment to stand behind gays. WaPo Link [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/14/AR2005121402361.html] . > Ford Motor Co. yesterday said it will resume advertising Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles in gay-themed publications, following an outpouring of fury from gay groups

The Transplant

The whole idea of face transplant surgery is eerie, and it got off to an even eerier start with last month's first successful one: > Among the most disturbing aspects of the debate are conflicting reports from doctors about whether the transplant was the result of two suicide

The American Catholic Renaissance

The Anchoress feels a renaissance underway [http://theanchoressonline.com/2005/12/14/tide-turning-for-catholicism/]. Funny thing is, I've been feeling it, too, but figured it was baseless optimism. > I am still getting emails - fewer, but a couple a week - from Catholics or “almost Catholics” who

Cutting Edge Violent Santa

From the New York Post: [http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/59662.htm] > A 10-year-old girl was so disgusted by the ghoulish slasher Santa on East 18th Street she wrote the couple who put it in their front yard yesterday and begged them to take it down