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Eric Scheske

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

Wetting and Burning

With the biggest bar night of the year just 48 hours away, this story is timely. Be careful out there Wednesday night, or this could happen to you: > A German man drank too much, wet his bed and set fire to his apartment while trying to dry his bedding,

Time to Get New Friends

The good James Kushiner comments on a new product [http://merecomments.typepad.com/merecomments/2005/11/whats_in_your_d.html]: > What really spun me around completely, and I haven't stopped thinking about it since, is one small box marked "Drink Check": "Protect yourself,

St. Fillan Apparently Fell Short of His Goals

Real estate developer forced to modify plans because the proposed digging would hurt the faeries: > Marcus Salter, head of Genesis Properties, estimates that the small colony of fairies believed to live beneath a rock in St Fillans, Perthshire, has cost him Â£15,000. His first notice of the