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Eric Scheske

Married "Bliss"

The life of married bloggers. Here, it's Old Oligarch and Zorak, and Zorak recounts the conversation [http://e-pression.blogspot.com/]: > O.O.: "There's Tina Turner! She doesn't look that good. She looks great now, but that's just because she&

Baptists and Catholics Together

For Ash Wednesday services. I like to offer commentary, but this link comments sufficiently [http://merecomments.typepad.com/merecomments/2006/03/ash_wednesday_e.html].

The Importance of Biography

Inkwell has a great post this morning [http://www.iwf.org/inkwell/default.asp]: > New York Times columnist David Brooks has made a list of things a student can do to get a good education, even if she is forced to attend an inadequate school such as Harvard. >

Ash Wednesday Attendance

Funky Dung [http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/] makes this statement: "More people attend Ash Wednesday mass than Christmas or even Easter, the holiest day of the year." Is that true? It doesn't describe my parish, but that doesn't mean much. If anyone has any stats

Who You Work For?

Funny passage at the American Spectator blog [http://www.spectator.org/blogger.asp#1883]: > Catholic Charities in Massachusetts is under pressure to allow gay adoptions, especially because of the state's antidiscrimination laws. Seven board members, apparently previously confused about what kind of Catholicism they were working for,

Crud

The Drudge headline said, "Work out with the most powerful woman in the world." I clicked on it, expecting to see Jessica Alba again, or maybe Cindy Margolis,but it's just a story [http://www.nbc4.com/health/7570624/detail.html] about Condoleeza Rice. I searched

Alba at Playboy

As long as I'm on the topic of erotica (great way to begin Lent, huh?): > Actress Jessica Alba, who appears in a bikini on the cover of Playboy's March issue, is threatening to sue the magazine, claiming that Hugh Hefner & Co. are trying to

Porn v. Strippers

A neat piece at the Timesonline about vaudeville strippers and their disappearance before the onslaught of porn [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,23110-2040499,00.html], like Russia's liberals swept before their anarchist children in Dostoyevsky's The Possessed [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/

I'd Rather be Dead

> An Iowa woman allegedly faked her own death to avoid paying parking tickets. . . > She now faces up to five years in prison for fraud - instead of the $500 fine she might have expected for failing to pay her parking tickets. Link [http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_

Identity Soup

Hey, those frogs have some character, after all: > More than 200 political demonstrators defied a police ban here on Thursday, scurrying across Boulevard St.-Germain and under the sycamore trees of Place Maubert to engage in their forbidden action: eating "pig soup" in public. > With steaming