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Eric Scheske

Smut Revolution?

Stern debuted his Sirius show today, after leaving FM on December 16th. > Stern also introduced George Takei as his new on-air personality. Takei, who played Captain Sulu on the popular television show "Star Trek" and who last year publicly said he is gay, will serve as

Gay Louisiana Priest

> Deciding he had to practice the honesty he preached, a popular priest has told his family, his bishop and the people in his parish that he is gay. > The Rev. Jim Morrison said he had been working since October on the letter which he sent early this month

Killing Girls

> More than 10m female births in India may have been lost to abortion and sex selection in the past 20 years, according to medical research. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4592890.stm] The result is common-sensical: there's a lopsided boy-to-

Agca to be Freed

> A court has approved the release from prison the man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981, saying he completed his sentence for crimes he committed in Turkey, the semiofficial Anatolia news agency reported Sunday. > Mehmet Ali Agca was extradited to Turkey in 2000 after serving almost

Couric's Salary

From Andy Rooney: > [T]hey're talking about giving Katie Couric $20 million. I say take that $20 million you could buy 40 reporters, 40 new reporters. You could give them each $250,000. I mean, there are hundreds of reporters who would jump at getting $250,000.

Another Phenomenon from Our Mass Middle Upper Class

> Mailboxes costing as much as $350 and granite posts that can cost $400 are sprouting up around Boston's western suburbs. Link [http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/01/08/the_latest_stamp_of_distinction_high_end_mailboxes/] .

Crime Doesn't Pay

> Two people suspected of counterfeiting money spent at least a week relieving themselves in plastic shopping bags, because the plumbing stopped working in their apartment when they flushed wads of suspected fake cash down the toilet, authorities said. [http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CASH_CLOGGED_TOILET?SITE=

Increasing Brand Loyalty or Intolerance?

Wheaton fires a professor of medieval philosophy because he became Catholic. Catholics are trying to hire more Catholic professors. Is this a renewal of hostilities that have thawed over the past 20 years, or just intitutions being loyal to their religious roots? I'm thinking the latter, and I

The Bloody History of Communism

Click here [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8249035553873309392&q=beagle] to see a video about the atrocity that was Communism, from its Marxist/Darwinian theoretical beginnings through Castro (the intro implies the video will discuss Castro). I've just started watching it, and it looks pretty good.

Cliche Hater

Long-time readers of this blog have no doubt noticed my dislike of cliches. My dislike is a little extreme, but basically it comes down to this: chiches are often substitutes for (and obstacles to) genuine clear thinking and inventive writing. The New Book of Lists [http://www.amazon.com/