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The Comic Rockstars Toilet Seat Museum. Link
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/16756280@N00/sets/789737/].
Eric Scheske
Freedom and the Metal Detector
Prospect has run a solid piece about freedom and protecting ourselves from
terrorism. Link
[http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=6965&AuthKey=875ca4fec9c2b5177985a662ca7877e1&issue=508]
. Excerpts:
> Should we change our way of life to be more secure from terrorism? We already
have. A
Better Late Than Never
> Three years after the clergy sex abuse crisis rocked the Roman Catholic church,
a Vatican-directed evaluation of all U.S. seminaries is scheduled to begin late
next month.
> Archbishop Edwin O'Brien, the U.S. coordinator for the review, said 117 bishops
and seminary staff will
Ramming Gay Marriage Everywhere
The article talks about how the women were horrified at the reaction, but it
also admits that the women filed the lawsuit. Interesting stuff.
> When two women tried to register as a married couple in Aruba last year, people
on this Dutch island threw rocks at them, slashed their
Hollywood: Sexual Mosh Pit
From the mouth of someone who knows:
> Eva Longoria refuses to romance fellow celebrities - because she claims everyone
in Hollywood has slept with each other. . .
> The 'Desperate Housewives' beauty says she is so fed up with the close-knot
celebrity circles she avoids red-carpet events
Wi-Fi the Street
The next big techie thing? Neighborhood wi-fi access. It supposedly builds
neighborly relations. We like it, but our approval might end when the
laptop-totin' homeless population arrives to sit on the curbs:
> The Fourth Street hotspot is part of a communal wireless project called
Neighbornode, started
All Eyes on the Lutherans II
A follow-up to our earlier post (link [https://thedailyeudemon.com/1966/]):
> "In an indication of the deep split over homosexuality in the church, which with
five million members is the nation's largest Lutheran denomination, the vote on
gay clergy members at the church's
The NCAA is a Joke
> The NCAA will allow Florida State to use its Seminoles nickname in postseason
play, removing the school from a list of colleges with Native American nicknames
that were restricted by an NCAA decision earlier this month.
> The NCAA said it was recognizing the relationship Florida State has long
Happy Big 7-0-0, Wallace
> Today is the 700th anniversary
[http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1554805,00.html] of Scottish
hero William Wallace [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wallace] being
gruesomely killed in Smithfield market in the City of London.
> There are a series of memorial events
Hello Mudda . . .
. . . this place is supposed to be a Christian camp, but so far, it seems like
Hell.
> According to [a federal] lawsuit . . . young Ezekiel Losoya . . . was subjected
to an assortment of "inhumane, degrading, and criminal conduct" during a
one-week stay in the summer of 2003. Among 19