Bag End
A Tolkien nut and doll house builder has made a miniature Bag End
[http://www.livejournal.com/community/little_world/39277.html?view=211565].
Pretty neat.
Eric Scheske
The Next Sexual Frontier
HBO will air Big Love, a series about polygamy in Utah.
> The show premieres March 12 on the pay cable network and will air after HBO's
most-revered series, The Sopranos, every week.
> Big Love follows polygamist Bill Henrickson and his three wives as they lead
20/20 Takes on Public Education
I've never been a big fan of ABC's 20/20, but I guess I'll have to start
watching. According to David Pearson [http://www.suicideofthewest.com/], its
reporter, John Stossel, isn't afraid of challenging America's bogus sacred cows.
This story
The Deluge
Mitch Albom discusses the small controversy over the Detroit Pistons' swimsuit
calendar
[http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060115/OPINION02/601150352/1082]
. The calendar doesn't have pictures of Ben Wallace in a Speedo, but rather
pictures of the Piston dancing team--the Automotion--in
All in the Family
I've been enjoying TV Land's All in the Family coverage this weekend
[http://www.tvland.com/schedule/index.jhtml]. It's showing more reruns all day
today, but they're the later ones and, if memory serves, the show became much
more agenda-driven
Something for Sunday Morning
"Outward restlessness often goes together with inner listlessness. . . The
states of quietness and inner alertness belong together, supporting and
determining each other."
Romano Guardini, The Art of Praying
Judas' Rehabilitation Revisited
The story of efforts to rehabilitate Judas were apparently exaggerated. Link
[http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2006/01/mea-culpa-why-it-is-important-to.html]
.
Thanks, Curt Jester
[http://www.splendoroftruth.com/curtjester/archives/006412.php].
Leno on Alito Hearings
> Have you watched any of these confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee
Sam Alito? Senators are given thirty minutes to question the guy: thirty minutes
exactly. Senator Joe Biden's question took 23 1/2 minutes. His question took 24
minutes. And Alito is smart. He's
Finally, a Spokesman for the Religious Left
A Satanist is running for governor of Minnesota
[http://www.jonathonforgovernor.us/Home_page.html]. He must figure he has a good
shot, figuring Jesse Ventura got in. Heck, this guy is a pro wrestler, too,
according to his website. Excerpt:
> My name is Jonathon “The Impaler” Sharkey, Ph.
Seizure Me
But how's the kid supposed to live?
> Nicholas Lavin said that he played PlayStation constantly over the holidays at
his home in San Diego and began to notice that his head would jerk back and
forth.
> "I would do funny things with my head,"