Misc. Leno
From last Friday's show:
> As I'm sure you've heard by now, the airlines are saying no more hair gels,
shampoo, makeup or hair sprays will be allowed in your carry-on bag. Who's
attacking us? Drag queens?
> They also said
Eric Scheske
Party School
Princeton has released its annual review of the best party schools
[http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PARTY_SCHOOLS?SITE=7219&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-08-21-18-51-02]
. Texas is number one. When I get the complete list, I'll post
Love Boat Trivia
From Mark Steyn's Aaron Spelling obituary in the September Atlantic (subscriber
link [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200609/aaron-spelling]):
> “Get rid of the little guy,” advised an NBC exec after the Fantasy Island
pilot. Eventually Spelling did, but only after Hervé Villechaize demanded as
much per
Barnes on Media
The most-recent issue of Imprimis has a good account by Fred Barnes of
mainstream media bias. Link [http://www.hillsdale.edu/imprimis/]. Excerpts:
> President Bush is similarly treated as someone who is obsessive about his
religion. And what does he do? Well, he reads a devotional every day;
Joan
The Pope's reference to Joan of Arc yesterday
[http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=45996] reminded me: My eldest
son recently acquired a copy of Mark Twain's biography of Joan of Arc. I'm
ashamed to admit it, but I know nothing about
Great Quotes
Fr. Joe serves up an assortment of great quotes
[http://fatherjoe.wordpress.com/2006/08/21/humorous-quotes/], many of which I've
never seen before.
Another Sighting
This PR stunt is getting older than marrying Elizabeth Taylor
[http://www.biogs.com/famous/taylorliz.html]:
> Some have seen her in toast, in trees, even potato chips. Now one suburban St.
Louis man says the Virgin Mary is in his refrigerator.
> Last week, John Milonas was grilling
Pope Against Hard Work?
No, he's not against hard work. But he is against filling our lives with
non-stop activity, something I've been guilty of for the past two months.
Quoting St. Bernard Clairvaux:
> "We have to guard ourselves, the saint observed, from the dangers of excessive
Buchanan Book
Drudge "reviews" Pat Buchanan's new book
[http://www.drudgereport.com/flashpjb.htm]. If memory serves, the two are
friends. But no matter: I like Buchanan, and I line up more with his thinking
than I do the neo-cons that are currently in power. Unfortunately, based
Word Pollution . . .
. . . It's worse than I thought:
> James Billington, the head of the Library of Congress, told me about a report
estimating that digital information equivalent in scale to the contents of all
the library's books is produced by the world's computers every fifteen minutes.