Fifties Site
I enjoy those narrow niche blogs, like this one: Plan59
[http://www.plan59.com/main.htm], a bunch of pictures and ads from the 1950s.
Pretty cool.
Eric Scheske
Powerball Winners
I'm still battling this cold, bronchitis, junior plague, or whatever it is, so I
went home at lunch to eat and take a nap. While eating, I flipped on Fox News
and caught about 15 minutes of the press conference with $365 million Powerball
[http://www.powerball.com/
Commie Catholics
Catholicism is rising in Vietnam, according to the Christian Science Monitor
[http://csmonitor.com/2006/0222/p06s01-woap.html]. It was heavily Catholic under
the French, but didn't fare well after the Communist takeover. Relations between
the Church and the Party, though, have thawed a bit, according to
Brokeback Parodies
I watched a few of them. They're pretty funny, but not great. I'd give 'em a 6.
Link to Brokeback Parodies
[http://blogs.newsobserver.com/unclecrizzle/index.php?title=i_wish_i_knew_how_to_quit_these&more=1&c=1&tb=
Rastafarians, Rejoice!
> In a victory for religious freedom, the Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the
Bush administration's claim that it can bar a small congregation in New Mexico
from using a hallucinogenic tea during its rituals.
> Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., speaking for a unanimous court, said
I'm Gonna Live Forever!
I keep telling my wife that the pressure of providing for eight dependents is
killing me. Turns out, it might be making into Methuselah
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah]:Â Â
> Men who live alone, without a spouse or children, very often die young. The
life-shortening effects
Happy Birthday, Artie
Today is nineteenth-century philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer's birthday. I
enjoyed his little book, Studies in Pessimism, which I can easily summarize:
Life sucks.
Schopenhauer, for instance, disdained the ontological truth that evil is a mere
privation of goodness. Said Arthur, "It is the good which is negative;
What About Shani Davis?
> Bryant Gumbel is stirring it up once again. The subject this time? The Winter
Olympics. The longtime sportscaster offered a withering critique of the Games on
his HBO show 'Real Sports' recently. His complaints ranged from the lack of
diversity among the athletes to the media'
Yallah
Is Yahoo! banning "allah" as a user name? This guy says it's banned, along with
a bunch of obscenities
[http://quickwired.com/kallahar/stories/2005-Yahoo/yahoo.php]. To date, Yahoo!
hasn't offered an explanation. I'm guessing it could be one ofÂ
Dirty Ice
Alright, it's hurl time:
> Jasmine Roberts never expected her award-winning middle school science project
to get so much attention. But the project produced some disturbing results: 70
percent of the time, ice from fast food restaurants was dirtier than toilet
water.
> The 12-year-old