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Eric Scheske

American Idol

I watched American Idol with my family last night. During these early segments, you see two things: (1) an early look at potential front-runners; (2) the untalented who look ridiculous. I've always enjoyed the untalented segments. Vain individuals think they can sing and then get mad when

News Flash: Ted Kennedy Looks in Mirror

> Sen. Edward Kennedy, who criticized Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito's past membership in a controversial Princeton University alumni club, severed his ties Tuesday with a former Harvard college social club that bans women members. > "He has decided to be taken off their rolls, believing that

Crazy Romanians

> A Romanian priest has been fined and could be defrocked after he was caught playing poker in a pub. > Vasile Mihaila, 40, parish priest for Negoesti village in Gorj county, was caught in the act by police during a routine search. . . > Orthodox church officials said they have

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Nagin Apologizes

Dang it! I was a believer. I thought he had a direct pipeline to divine thought. Now I'll have to cancel my plans to start the First Church of Nagin: > Mayor Ray Nagin apologized Tuesday for a Martin Luther King Day speech in which he predicted that

860 Million?

According to Catholic World News [http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=41869], a report says that 860 million children suffer world-wide. That strikes me as awfully high, but I don't know. How many children are there among the world's 6.5 billion? The

Euthanasia Edge

> Kevin Reeves, 40, was jailed for 15 months and ordered to pay Â£2,000 compensation after accepting Â£20,000 from a friend so depressed that she asked him to find a hitman to murder her. He even offered to do it himself, but got no further than

French Population Up? . . .

. . . kinda > France has had a slight upward blip in the birthrate, to 1.94, just below the replacement level of 2.1. It would be more reassuring if it were not exclusively among Moslems. > Because the French government does not gather statistics by ethnicity or religion, it is

Facilitating the Fundamental Human Right to a Threesome

From Britain: > The law could be changed to allow two prostitutes and a receptionist or maid to work together legally in brothels, the government has confirmed. > Currently only lone prostitutes can offer sex from flats or other premises without breaking the law. Link [http://news.bbc.co.uk/

Skinned Exhibit

I'm gonna hurl: > A controversial exhibition displaying 20 skinned human cadavers will go on show in Melbourne [http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0%2C5478%2C17839551%255e2862%2C00.html] . Organizers say it's educational. Or maybe artistic. Or maybe a type of prayer.