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Eric Scheske

Nigerian E Fraud

Interesting piece at the LA Times about Nigerian e-mail scams. I assumed these fraud attempts met with at least limited success, but figured they didn't net much. After all, if you have enough mental mojo to turn on your computer and log onto the Internet, you should

Candy Blog

Should I rail against American gluttony? Or take pleasure in a blog that enjoys one of life's little things? I'll opt for the latter. Candy Addict Blog [http://www.candyaddict.com/blog/]. Note: Blogging is a little tough today. Marie is sick, and so I"

Darts Going Prime Time

ESPN wants another World Series Poker bonanza, but the Channel-Surfing Dexterity Championship must have already been taken: > ESPN has signed a deal with [British producer Michael] Davies to broadcast a made-for-television darts championship next year as a World Series of Darts; there are to be eight

Skyrockets in Flight . . . Afternoon Delight

I thought astronauts had to wear diapers. Isn't that enough of a deterrent? > Sex and romantic entanglements among astronauts could derail missions to Mars and should therefore be studied by NASA, warns a top-level panel of US researchers. Is this a gay thing, or are we

Catholic Charities Put Children with Gay Parents

> Despite Vatican teachings that allowing homosexuals to adopt children is ''gravely immoral," the social services agency of the Archdiocese of Boston has allowed 13 foster children [out of 720] to be adopted by same-sex couples in the past two decades, saying state regulations prohibit the

Gay Teens

More gay teens. It's WaPo's turn to normalize it and encourage it with a feature story called "Everybody Loves Andy." It's about all those high school kids who say they have a gay friend (Andy is the gay guy, in case you&

Recreation v. Religion

The new pagan god of recreation versus the old pagan gods of the Indians. Based on what I read in this article, I'm hoping the old fellas win. NYT Link [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/23/national/23peaks.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1130066538-35KAJWtHCco/JM2vJfEGgQ] . Excerpt:

Something for Sunday Morning

> Certainly they must have laughed at him at the beginning. The young [military] officer who did not drink, left women alone, ate the poorest food and gave away all but the minimum, who devoted his leisure time to prayer, reading, and visiting the sick, who cleaned his orderly'

Daggone Fascist Police State

> Australian authorities have apologized to the family of an elderly man who was given a parking ticket while he lay dead in his car in a suburban shopping center. Link [http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2005-10-21T143731Z_01_DIT152634_RTRUKOC_0_US-

No Fat Lesbians?

> According to a UK obesity expert when women move in with their man they very often put on weight as a result. > Men says Haslam are really very bad for women. > He says eating with a partner becomes a social event, where women often eat larger portions