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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

Dresden Revisited: Carpet Bombing the Culture

> "You can hardly turn on a television set, go to a movie, or listen to a political speech without the supposedly 'marginalized' person ... being portrayed, catered to, lauded, romanticized, or analyzed. ... > "We now have The L Word, a program on Showtime, described as Sex

Extreme Exercise

Saw this in a WaPo [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/14/AR2005111401051.html] caption: > Boot camps are one of the top fitness trends of 2005, according to a study by the American Council on Exercise. Americans and their extremes. Scale back on your food

Porn Culture

Porn, porn everywhere/ In my pocket/ At the fair/ Watch in my car/ Or at the beach/ Just give me a cell/ And it's in my reach. > Pornography is spreading from the computer desktop to the small screen, to pocket-sized devices such as cell phones, digital

Alito Contest Heating Up

It would appear it's now open season on Alito. How fitting, at least for those of us in Michigan: Today is the opening day of the 2005 deer season, a de facto holiday in the mitten state. From Washington Times: [http://www.washtimes.com/national/20051115-123456-9700r.

Hot Time on the Town

This is nuthin'. Wait till the Muslims take over Europe: > Drunks may cause a ruckus, but they do not burn down the breweries that feed their thirst. But archaeologists have found that things were different 1000 years ago in Peru. After tossing down hearty drinks of pepper-spiced

Nazis Don't Kowtow to Art

> A stunned Italian actor had to stub out the cigarette he had lit up on stage after a spectator complained, forcing the theatre to change the script of an Arthur Miller play to make it smoke-free. > "This had never happened to me in more than 300

V-Pod

I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner. A new add-on allows you to turn your i-pod into an erotic toy [http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005520728,00.html]. The human race is ingenious, and never more so when they're obsessed

Black Gays

From NY Post: [http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/57412.htm] > Nearly half of all new cases of HIV infection are African-American [gays], according to findings by the Centers for Disease Control.

Man Crush

I still hadn't fully recovered from whatever illness afflicted me this morning, when I read about "man crushes" in the Toronto Star [http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1131898685627&call_page=TS_Life&

Shovel Fighting

Kind of a slow day for the blog. I woke up this morning, feeling like I had the flu. After a few items of unpleasantness, it slowly passed, but now I'm dealing with a backlog at the office, occasional tremors from the earlier sickness, and a dearth of