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Eric Scheske

Lay Administrators

The Pittsburgh Diocese might start using laymen to administer parishes [http://kdka.com/topstories/local_story_116204355.html]. The story isn't clear on details. I'm assuming it'd work this way: The administrator would handle all the non-spiritual stuff, and a priest will ride

You Want Embalming Fluid with That?

> [A] Domino's delivery man used a car to transport corpses to funeral parlors when he wasn't using the vehicle to bring pies and Cheesy Bread to pizza enthusiasts [http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0427061pizza1.html]. Also: That's one way to keep the recidivism

Flowering at 40

Cindy Margolis will pose for Playboy [http://news.aol.com/entertainment/articles/_a/cindy-margolis-to-pose-for-playboy/20060425131409990002] : > After turning down offers to pose for the magazine in the past, Margolis said she accepted this time because she felt posing nude at the age of 40 is

Saving $3.00

> Some California drivers are resorting to desperate measures to beat the surge in gas prices at the pump -- deliberately running dry on the state's freeways and simply waiting for rescue [http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/25/life.gas.reut/index.html]. When they run out

Brand U

Great op-ed piece at NYT today [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/26/opinion/26Budiansky.html?ex=1146196800&en=bd632639265ab8ba&ei=5087%0A] about colleges' attempts to brand their schools. We see an increasing trend: colleges less interested in education and more interested in attracting students.

60 B

> Internet users around the world send an estimated 60 billion emails every day and many of these are spam or scam attempts, business leaders said on Tuesday [http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2006-04-25T155230Z_01_L25596952_RTRUKOC_0_US-SECURITY-INTERNET.xml&

My Sin Against Charity

Forgive me, but I kinda hope the box leaks. I don't know why. I guess the fame mongering bugs me. Then again, I'm the one with a blog. > Having starved himself and been frozen in ice, US magician David Blaine now plans to spend seven

MTV Angers the Germans

> A German conservative leader said Tuesday he has filed a complaint with prosecutors accusing music channel MTV of disparaging Christianity in an ad for its Vatican parody cartoon "Popetown," which depicts the pope as a pogo-stick riding brat. Link [http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/

Chip Me

I missed this yesterday: > A US study has concluded that children consume the caloric equivalent of a bag of potato chips for every hour they spend in front of a television. Food advertising in implicated in causing unconscious eating among young viewers [http://www.boingboing.net/2006/04/25/

Early Termination

Aborting Where the Wild Things Are. [http://merecomments.typepad.com/merecomments/2006/04/terminating_the.html]