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Clashing Gods Speaking of George (two posts below), he's back in the news, in the “Big Brother” context (does anyone remember Orwell for anything else these days?). This time, the dispute deals with strapping radio frequency badges on students in order to keep count of them. Some parents

Left Side of the Dial It looks like the days are over when a guy could turn on talk radio and assume the host is conservative. Liberal talk radio has taken off. The liberal talk radio network Air America "is on the verge of reaching 75 percent of the

Bedwetting and Corporal Punishment On a whim, we read from a collection of George Orwell essays last night before bed, particularly enjoying his "Such, Such Were the Joys . . .", an essay about his youth at Crossgates, a British boarding school and, near as we can tell, a prep school

Andy Griffith, Where Are You? Police in Williamsburg, Brooklyn ticketed a girl scout for selling cookies without a permit. Maybe the officer (presumably a member of the FOP) thought cookie-selling is a union job and he was just protecting the position from getting misappropriated by management. That theory makes more

Readers: You will find the feature publication, The Wednesday Eudemon, after this post. Patronize the Stores that Make You Nauseous? And we thought pop-up ads were annoying. From today's LA Times: “Forget television and radio spots, print ads and those pesky Internet pop-ups. The latest in advertising is

Issue XIV Welcome to XIV. Possibly the best sentence with "fourteen" in it comes from a guy who recounted, "I once got so drunk on slo-gin that I couldn't touch it again until I was 14." We don't endorse underage drinking, but

No More Pornography Canutin'? Here's an interesting article [http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2005/03/06/x_ed_out?pg=full] from the Boston Globe about the conspicuous absence of feminist voices against pornography. The industry is expanding, the article notes at the beginning:

If It's Ugly, It's Planned Parenthood Well, mutilating fetuses isn't enough for Planned Parenthood. Now they're going for the genitalia. From this morning's Dawn Patrol, quoting from a column by a PP rep, Alicia Fraser: "Female genital piercings not

Angel in the Waters Sophia Institute Press published Angel in the Waters by Regina Doman last year. Says Sean Dailey, Editor of Gilbert Magazine, this children's book about the gestation of a baby “relates more truth and beauty about the miracle of life than any hundred screaming position

Preventing the Gay Columbines The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) claims that only eight states and the District of Columbia properly support homosexual, bisexual, and transgender students. GLSEN apparently promotes its cause under the guise of preventing bullying. What “GLSEN does is use efforts to stop bullying as