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Eric Scheske

Back to the Drawing Board, NBC

What can they do next to offend Christians and increase ratings? They're good at the former, poor at the latter. > The last chapter of the controversial religious drama "The Book of Daniel" has been written at NBC [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060125/ap_

Who Wants to be a Dirt Bag?

> More than 200 reality TV hopefuls queued up to conceive a baby with a stranger live on air for a Â£10,000 prize. > They were the victims of a spoof set up to see how far people would go to get on television, reports the Daily Mirror.

Stuck in John

And I thought I had a rough day yesterday: > A man got stuck in a portable toilet for more than an hour after the door iced over as temperatures in Germany plummeted to minus 20C [http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1695664.html].

Boy Crisis

Now even Newsweek has picked up on the boy crisis in education and society as a whole [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10965522/site/newsweek/]. What's the answer to the increasing failure rate of males? According to this article [http://www.nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry200601240828.asp], there

Priest Goes Brokeback

Priest announces he's gay [http://insidebayarea.com/sanmateocountytimes/localnews/ci_3427018]. Gets a standing O during Mass. Where else but the Bay Area? Yes, yes, the Bay Area has good Catholics, too. But this is a bit much, no matter where it takes place.

Hating Religion

A secularist takes apart the secularists's assault on Christianity [http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CAF37.htm]. The article is somewhat condescending to Christian thinking and a little lengthy for my tastes, but it has a lot of good stuff. Excerpts: > First there was the controversy provoked

Legion for Christ

The Wall Street Journal has run a pretty good article about the Legion of Christ [http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB113798852937353361-lMyQjAxMDE2MzI3MzkyODM4Wj.html] . It also recounts some of the ugly attacks that have afflicted the Legion. Such attacks, of course, are a sign of success. If no one attacks

Len on Kennedy

> The National Inquirer has reported that Ted Kennedy has a 21-year-old secret love child...is that really the most accurate term "love child"? Isn't "drunken fling child" a bit more like it? > Senator Kennedy wasn't available for comment

Pass the Czech

> The Czechs do like their weed. A 2005 report by the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction found that 22% of Czechs between 16 and 34 had smoked marijuana at least once during the previous year, the highest percentage in the European Union. The nation's

Secrets of Married Men

A new book (Secrets of Married Men by Scott Haltzman) tries to save marriages by looking at it from the husband's angle. WaPo Link [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/23/AR2006012301274.html] . Excerpt from review: > [Haltzman's advice:] Use the male