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Eric Scheske

Brews You Can Use: Thanksgiving Day Edition

Wine blogger Stephen Bainbridge provides guidance for tomorrow's dinner [http://www.techcentralstation.com/112305D.html]. He provides expensive and inexpensive recommendations from five categories. Most useful. I present it today so you have a chance to get to the store. Excerpt: > Nothing says festive like sparkling wine,

Don't Drink Apple Martinis at Seminary Functions

In response to the Vatican gay document that says the Church "cannot admit to the seminary and the sacred orders those who . . . support so-called gay culture," one wag says the Vatican is banning any male who likes musicals, apple martinis, Judy Garland songs, designer fashion, and rainbows.

The Vatican Document on Gays

Well, the homosexual document finally hit the press. Everyone has heard of it, so I'm going to limit my analysis. Reproduced here are excerpts from the Washington Post [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/22/AR2005112201066.html] , New York Times [http://www.nytimes.com/

Misc. 11.22.05

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Those Crazy Europeans!

How long until the EU makes such subsidies a fundamental human right? > When Jurgen turned 18, his mother Frie Van Acker told him all about sex and asked whether he would like to have sex. Jurgen indicated “No.” One evening three years later, however, he wrote on his computer:

Demure About Kasparov

This month's Atlantic Monthly has a piece about Garry Kasparov. Subscriber-only link [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200512/kasparov]. It talks about his political goals for Russia and Putin's alleged corruption. Excerpt from concluding paragraphs: > As we left the restaurant after the press conference,

The Theater's Problems

> The era of moviegoing as a mass audience ritual is slowly but inexorably drawing to a close, eroded by many of the same forces that have eviscerated the music industry, decimated network TV and, yes, are clobbering the newspaper business. Put simply, an explosion of new technology – the Internet,

Oppressed Millionaire

Hey, Eton Thomas of the Washington Wizards has an op-ed in WaPo [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/17/AR2005111701624.html] . It's in the Marcus Garvey vein: > I'm often slapped in the face with harsh realities about perception. Like when

Avatars

What is an avatar? A Hindu god incarnate, properly speaking. On the Internet, they're cartoon characters that you can accessorize. Think of them as on-screen Barbies. They're child-like, but--shocker, shocker--America's adults are finding them irresistible. Now the "experts"

Carpet Bombing the Culture

The New York Times was making a different point, but in the process it provided pretty good evidence that Hollywood and TV have been bombing our culture with homosexuality [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/20/movies/20jame.html]: > There has been an explosion of Oscar-baiting performances in