Eric Scheske

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Kill Santa?

From a German spokesman for the efforts to rid us of Santa Claus [http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1622369.html]: > "St. Nicholas is not Father Christmas. The values associated with the former are selflessness, charity, solidarity, giving and sharing. He is perfect for getting across the

Light Show

It's flying across the Internet: An amazing Christmas light display [http://www.break.com/articles/houselights.html]. It might be fake. Snopes is investigating as I type.

iPod and Manners

George Will has a great op-ed in the Washington Post this morning [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/18/AR2005111802400.html] . The gist: In a society of entitlement and social autism, no one appreciates manners any more. > Sociology discerns connections, and there may be one between

Further Effort to Promote Homosexuality?

Ryan Seacrest will take over Dick Clark's role at Time Square, but I don't really think it's an attempt to further homosexuality. Though it's my understanding that Seacrest is gay, he does a heckuva good job with American Idol and people like

Nobel Not Noble

Maybe it's no accident that freaks frequently win the Nobel Prize: > Best known for inventing dynamite and creating and funding the Nobel Prizes, Alfred Nobel was also a playwright, though his work has (perhaps justifiably) gone unstaged–until [December 10, 2005]. In Stockholm, on the same day

Where to Begin?

> You can't call this top cop a plainclothes policeman - not after he appeared on television in a canary-yellow dress, sporting dark red lipstick, matching nail polish and a nose ring. > State officials ordered a probe into the behavior of Devendra Kumar Panda, an inspector general

Metrosexual Quarterly

> The man of the year is a woman? For the first time in 10 years, GQ magazine is featuring a woman on one of three covers of the annual Men of the Year issue. That woman: Jennifer Aniston. Link [http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/movies/article.adp?id=20051115073909990058]

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

Indifference to Ignorance

Saturdays often have a dearth of good articles on-line. Not today. Here's one that strikes at a phenomonen that I see around me everyday: indifference to ignorance [http://www.triangle.com/books/zane/story/2833105p-9283263c.html]. > [S]tudents have always possessed far less knowledge than they should,

Mental Destabilizer?

The NYT this morning reports about a Florence museum's exhibit of mythology and erotica [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/11/international/europe/11florence.html?hp]. It's full of classical art. That classical art has a lot of nudity and even some erotica (the two aren&