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Eric Scheske

Trump Earns $1,500,000 an Hour

There's a sucker born every minute . . . especially in a money-crazed society like ours. There's a good quote in Tocqueville to go with this story, but I don't have a copy of Democracy in America with me right now. > Donald Trump earned $25,

Good for DNA

> Cops armed with new DNA evidence believe that they will finally nail a man who brutally raped and killed a pretty Fordham University grad and aspiring nun 28 years ago. > But for the devastated family of Roberta "Robin" Elam – a 26-year-old attacked and strangled

Congratulations, Steve Martin

Comedy albums were common in my house while growing up: Bob Newhart, Bill Cosby, and Steve Martin. I listened to Let's Get Small and Wild and Crazy Guy almost as many times as I saw The Jerk. A smooth courtship with my current wife was almost disrupted when

Anne Rice: Revert to Catholicism

> The renowned author of "Interview with the Vampire" and 24 other best-sellers says she's turned from writing about tortured souls to saving souls. > "I promised that from now on I would write only for the Lord," Anne Rice, 64, tells Newsweek.

The Technology Dumping Ground

There can be a downside to technology and foreign aid? I thought it was all rosy, all the time: > [A] report [to be released today], titled "The Digital Dump: Exporting Reuse and Abuse to Africa," says that the unusable equipment is being donated or sold to developing

Gays in Africa

Helping Africa's gay problem. WaPo this morning implicitly rejoices in Namibia's new openness to homosexuality [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/23/AR2005102301163.html] : > Un-African. Un-Christian. Anti-family. Witchcraft. > In many African countries, being gay is considered all

Shower Fight U.

They've made gender equality "advances" in other areas, why not in prison population? > Women made up 7 percent of inmates in state and federal prisons last year and accounted for nearly one in four arrests, the government reported Sunday. > The number of women incarcerated

Modern Art I Can Dig

The city of San Fransisco, made out of jello. Pretty wild [http://www.lizhickok.com/assets/portfolio/pages/01city.html].

King David

Neat excerpt from a NYT review of The Life of David by Robert Pinsky [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/23/books/review/23deresiewicz.html]. > [David's] story is also far fuller than that of any other biblical character. Moses' occupies more space, but that austere figure

New 100-Volume Myth Series

Canongate is publishing a 100-volume myth series. It will feature a re-telling of the world's famous myths. Sounds great. But it should be avoided, at risk of nausea: > Canongate launches its series with small, beautiful books by three wise women. Karen Armstrong's A