Free Starbucks
I don't like coffee and I don't like Starbucks and I don't like the consumerist
culture it stands for. I don't even have a Starbucks in my home town (no, I
don't live in hell). But I offer this, in
Eric Scheske
Cocky Counterfeiter . . . But Not Too Bright
Fire up the ethnic joke machines:
> The counterfeit money looked good, but there was one flaw. There's no such thing
as a one billion dollar bill.
> U.S. Customs agents in California said on Tuesday they had found 250 bogus
billion dollar bills while investigating a
"Like, Dude, How Can That Be?"
"How can what be?"
"Dude, I forget, man"
> Long-term users of marijuana gradually become worse at learning and remembering
things, a new study suggests.
[http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/dn8839.html]
That's a Crime!
People are stealing empty kegs for the scrap metal value. It's becoming quite
the problem. A reader sent the story to me. I can't find a link, so you'll have
to take my word for it (like I'd make-up such a
Beatles
Terry Teachout writes about the Beatles
[http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article.asp?aid=12102061_1]. Teachout is
always worth reading, even when his subject isn't. In this one, he has a good
subject, too. Excerpt:
> The historical significance of these achievements, however, cannot be
overstated. After the
Welborn and Da Vinci
From the National Catholic Register's coverage of Amy Welborn's "Theology on
Tap" lecture in Rome about the Da Vinci Code:
> Welborn said she would rather be writing her own novels “than talking about this
silly, silly book,” and that people's “unending
Laymen Take a Stand
> Like many dioceses in North America, the archdiocese [of St. Paul, Minnesota]
has been plagued by the scandal of priestly sexual abuse. The diocese is unique
however, in that a movement of faithful Catholic lay men has chosen to publicly
confront the scandal, not by demanding - as do most
Oh, Mitt
> Governor Mitt Romney, who frequently tells Republican audiences that every child
has a right to have a mother and father, acknowledged yesterday that same-sex
couples have ''a legitimate interest" in adopting children.
> Romney said he would file a ''very narrow" bill
Red Russia
Still paying for Lenin's sins:
> Russia is red again - after a freak fall of coloured snow on the former
communist country.
> Northern regions of Russia's Maritime territory have been blanketed by a creamy
reddish snow caused by a combination of weather patterns.
Link [http:
Like a Virgin Boy
> Plagued by rumours their marriage is in trouble, Madonna has put her foot down
and imposed a strict curfew on her husband.
> The star has drawn up a rigid three-point plan by which movie director Guy
Ritchie has to abide.
> She has told him he must