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Eric Scheske

Movies and Health

> Researchers from the University of Maryland have concluded that watching a comedy can increase blood flow as much as aerobic exercise or regularly taking heart medication. > On the flipside, the mental anguish caused by watching a drama significantly decreases blood flow. Link [http://www.news.com.au/story/

American Idol Anti-Gay?

Funny stuff: > Bosses at America's leading gay rights group are demanding a summit meeting with the producers of TV talent show American Idol after claiming the programme is "increasingly homophobic". > Officials at the Gay And Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) were appalled by homophobic

The 99

> Young Arabs will soon be poring over a new group - and new genre - of superheroes like Jabbar, Mumita and Ramzi Razem, all aimed specifically at young Muslim readers and focusing on Muslim virtues. > Mr. Mutawa's Teshkeel Media, based in Kuwait, says that in September it will

No Shame

> Twenty-four hours after Osama bin Laden told the world that the American people should read the work of a little-known Washington historian, William Blum was still adjusting. > Blum, who at 72 is accustomed to laboring in relative left-wing obscurity, checked his emotions and pronounced himself

Something for Sunday Morning

> By an undivided and absolute abandonment of yourself and everything, shedding all and freed from all, you will be uplifted to the ray of the divine shadow which is above everything that is. Pseudo-Dionysius

Atlantic Miscellany

Miscellaneous passages from this month's Atlantic: > [A] new study published in the British Medical Journal . . . finds that early retirees have higher mortality than workers who stay on the job. > [A new] survey indicates that one in four U.S. workers reads blogs regularly while at work,

Souter Home Condemned?

Come on! Be reasonable. You're making this personal. With Souter, it's all about theory: > Angered by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that sided with a Connecticut city that wanted to seize homes for economic development, a group of activists is trying to get one

Psycho Killer Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa

> A new study from New Zealand, published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, raises important questions about the effect of abortion on women's mental health. Researchers found those reporting an abortion prior to age 21 had rates of mental disorders from age 21 to 25

Big v. Little

When government acts, it looks at the big picture. Usually, government looks at sophisticated studies that consider harm and benefit and things like that. Sometimes, it looks at polls and what people want as a whole. No matter what, the government always tries to consider the big picture. It'

Bring Me the Women

A writer reconsiders [http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/debrasaunders/2006/01/20/183138.html] the argument--which she previously rejected--that same-sex marriage leads to polygamy. > When social conservatives argue that legalizing same-sex marriage could lead to legalized polygamy, same-sex marriage advocates either laugh or