Culture

The Will & Grace stars engaged in a little playful eroticism Friday night at the Lucy Awards. Link [http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2005-06-12-lucy-awards_x.htm?POE=LIFISVA]. Excerpt: > After Camryn Manheim introduced the pair as the new Lucy and Ethel, [Megan] Mullally playfully fondled [Debra Messing'

It's rare that we get tempted to check out a TV show. In the past twelve years, Eric Scheske has watched two shows: Seinfeld and The Sopranos. Eric shares Marshall McLuhan's distrust of TV and Neil Postman's disgust with it. Eric especially dislikes documentaries.

We like eBay. We like the cottage industries it has spawned; we like the way it brings together ordinary consumers without a significant middle man. But it wouldn't be so successful in a society that wasn't infected with acquisition infatuation. Anyway, if you want to buy

A Calgary Sun columnist has written a great piece about Michael Jackson. Link [http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Calgary/Ian_Robinson/2005/06/12/1083192.html] . Excerpts: > I mean, here we have a man who speaks in an affected little baby voice, owns a face that looks like

The New York Times has a grisly article (with one particularly-nasty picture) about "meth mouth": gnarled and ruined teeth resulting from the use of methamphetamine. Link [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/11/national/11meth.html?hp&ex=1118462400&en=51ca0e06dc145407&ei=5094&partner=

Joe Sobran wrote a nice column about the historical value of movies. Link [http://www.sobran.com/columns/2005/050519.shtml]. Opening paragraphs: > One of the ways I like to study American history is by watching old Hollywood movies, especially those made (usually in black and white) around and

Ads purposefully crafted to get banned. Link [http://www.adrants.com/2005/06/girl-grabs-crotch-ad-gets-banned.php]. Excerpt: > [I]t seems marketers are simply creating them now in order to have them banned. Take the Plugg Jeans ad. It shows two hotties on the beach. The guy is holding a girl

We appreciate the considerateness, but . . . > A German city is rushing to install a series of drive-in wooden "sex garages" in time for next year's Soccer World Cup and an expected boom in the local sex trade, a city official said Wednesday. > Dortmund, one of

Fox Cable Networks announced the debut of Fox Reality--a network that provides 24/7 reality programming. Sound unique? No, there are already two other cable channels that provide 24/7 reality coverage, and the rest of the world has had it since 2003. Consider these programs: > Terrorism in the