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Eve Tushnet offers a personal review of 2005 [http://eve-tushnet.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_eve-tushnet_archive.html#113660514234272638] . Pretty good stuff.

Actually, this is more of a PSA than a Weekend Eudemon. A tight writing deadline and the demands of my law practice--not to mention the four five little kids running around my office right now, killing time while I let my tired wife sleep--will make blogging difficult. TDE

A Chestertonian (fan of G.K. Chesterton) has dedicated himself to writing a new poem every day during 2006 [http://eveningisles.blogspot.com/]. I ain't no poetry expert and the year is awfully young, but it's a novel idea. I suspect it'll be worth

Yet people scoff when someone suggest that unwholesome TV can have an adverse effect on viewers: > Young adults as well as teenagers drink more under the influence of advertising for alcoholic beverages, researchers said on Monday. Link [http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060102/hl_nm/drinking_dc;_ylt=

> Internet users share many common interests, but men are heavier consumers of news, stocks, sports and pornography while more women look for health and religious guidance, a broad survey of U.S. Web usage has found. Link [http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051229/wr_nm/internet_gender_dc;

A good nun is a great thing. A bad one is an atrocious thing. This nun [http://romans8v29.blogspot.com/] reads Gilbert Magazine and National Catholic Register. That's a good sign. Her blog offers an enjoyable look at life from the other side of the habit.

> Capitalizing on shortages of Microsoft's new video-game console, several people have attracted bids as high as $600 or more on eBay this week by offering Xbox 360 boxes -- just empty boxes -- in ways that made it seem, without reading closely, that the items for sale were

Just as every "Happy Holidays" greeting isn't a capitulation to secularists, gays oughtta recognize that every refusal to fund their causes isn't a capitulation to the "religious right": > Ford Motor Co. said it will stop running ads for its Jaguar and

I found this development interesting: > The Friday after Thanksgiving may be the kickoff of the holiday shopping season in malls and stores, but online, the big day is the Monday after Thanksgiving -- today -- when people go back to work. > "Thanksgiving is when we get lists of what

I, quite frankly, don't know what to think of Wal-Mart. I disdain its grasping desire to bring every amenity in small towns--from groceries to eye care to gasoline to pharmaceuticals--within their boxed walls. Yet I also appreciate their low prices and know enough--barely enough-