USCCB on DaVinci
The bishops have deemed it fit to get involved. Jesus Decoded
[http://www.jesusdecoded.com/introduction.php].
stolen from
[http://michaeldubruiel.blogspot.com/2006/03/bishops-anti-davinci-code-site.html]
Eric Scheske
Mixed-Up
> On June 1, 2000, Mrs. Remmele, then 31, discovered her husband's profile on the
Web site gay.com. The couple stayed up all that night weeping and talking. Soon
afterward, 10 days before she gave birth to her second child, Mrs. Remmele's
husband went off
June 6, 2006
You think Tim LaHaye is just an honest Christian who happened to make a bunch of
money from writing fiction about his pet eschatological theory? Check out this
page: The Rapture--Coming 06.06.06 [http://www.leftbehind.com/].
LaHaye is a marketer, a fiction writer, and maybe a psychologist,
Burned by Oxygen
> A 64-year-old Greenwood woman was burned seriously after a fire started while
she was smoking and taking oxygen, investigators said.
> "This isn't the first time someone in our city has been seriously injured while
smoking and on oxygen," Greenwood Fire Chief Steve
The Nutty Customer
> For years, Janey Karp has battled depression and anxiety with the help of
prescription drugs. Though millions of Americans do the same, Karp admits she is
intensely private and can't help but feel stigmatized for needing medication to
feel normal.
> So when the 53-year-old
Cutting Down on STDs
> Long distance lovers could soon be able to bond by sharing a wi-fi glass of
wine. . . .
> The high-tech glasses will glow warmly when raised, no matter how far apart the
drinkers are, reports New Scientist.
> Jackie Lee and Hyemin Chung, experts in human-computer interaction,
Wyndham
I like the little literary anecdotes. I found this one in The Ong Reader. If you
know about Wyndham Lewis' [http://www.wyndhamlewis.com/biog.html] challenging
personality, you'll get a kick out of it:
> Marshall McLuhan tells this story on himself. He and his wife
VM
> "'It's disgusting," she said. "The play defines women as their sexual organs."
That's one conservative woman who is fed up with the Vagina Monologues. WaPo
Link
[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/07/AR2006030701842_pf.html]
Rich and Married
> Creating a successful marriage is hard work. So it's nice to know you're getting
paid for it. That's the word from a researcher at Ohio State University, who
found that people who walk down the aisle and stay hitched accumulate nearly
twice as
Misc. Leno
I'll give Leno's monologue from Monday night the final say in the Brokeback
affair:
> Real shocker last night was that "Crash” upset "Brokeback Mountain” to win
best picture. They were not happy in West Hollywood. They were looting pottery
barns, flipping over Volvos,