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Eric Scheske

Shocker

> Britain is less happy than in the 1950s - despite the fact that we are three times richer [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/programmes/happiness_formula/4771908.stm]. We better get a team of researchers on this. Maybe they'll discover that man is not made

Hell Freezes Over

> Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios backed efforts yesterday toward the construction of a mosque in Athens after Greece was recently criticized for not offering its Muslim community a suitable prayer site [http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/?p=1594#more-1594].

Leno on Gas Prices

California now has the most expensive gas prices. Gas is so expensive now that drivers are shooting themselves instead of each other. It's affecting a lot of people. You just wait for the Indy 200 at the end of the month.

Meanwhile, Andrew Sullivan Weeps at the Beauty

> In her new memoir, NOW IT'S MY TURN (Simon & Schuster/Threshold Editions, 2006), Mary Cheney writes that when she told her parents she was gay, the first words out of her father's mouth “were exactly the ones that I wanted to hear: 'You&

The Future

From an interview with Bishop Carlson of Saginaw [http://www.catholicreport.org/?id=181]: > Catholic schools are our future. We need strong Catholic schools to teach the faith and to evangelize. We need to keep the schools going all the while paying a just wage. As I mentioned, we

Not What You Think

Barefoot and Pregnant [http://www.barefootandpregnant.com/]. It's a spa, not a philosophy. Too bad. (Heh, heh, heh. Anyone know where I can get a cheap room for the night?)

AIDS and Smoking

> Statistically, an active participant in certain 'risky' forms of behavior is far likelier to contract AIDS than a ten-pack-a-day smoker is to come down with lung cancer. Yet the Supreme Court has ru led that such behavior is a human right, and cannot be outlawed. Charles A.

Alright, This is Just Gross

> A 33-year-old Malaysian man who married a 104-year-old woman said that it was God's will that he tie the knot with someone old enough to be his great-grandmother. . . "I didn't marry Wook for her money. Her only asset is her deep religious knowledge.” The

Irreverent Gum

Conning the credulous. A statue of Holy Mother made of gum. A miracle for sale on eBay [http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7411925372&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1] .

60 Minutes: Investigative Journalists

> According to CBS' “60 Minutes” a key aspect of Dan Brown's “The Da Vinci Code” is a hoax. That's right, the Priory Of Sion doesn't really exist, or at least it didn't exist before the middle of the 20th century.