Miscellaneous

Drudge cracked me up with this story [http://www.drudgereport.com/flash1bs.htm]: > Barbra Streisand has launched a new spelling error-ridden dispatch on the Internet -- a dispatch that mocks President Bush for being a "C student!" > In her February 28th, 2006 essay, Streisand flubs 11

> A small-town police chief was accused in a federal lawsuit Thursday of stopping a would-be rescuer from performing CPR on a gay heart attack victim because he assumed the ailing man had HIV and posed a health risk. Link [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060302/ap_

A neat piece at the Timesonline about vaudeville strippers and their disappearance before the onslaught of porn [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,23110-2040499,00.html], like Russia's liberals swept before their anarchist children in Dostoyevsky's The Possessed [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/

We're pretty excited at the Scheske household. We're receiving a big tax refund that will more than fund our spring trip to Mississippi (Tupelo, birthplace of Elvis) and the Smokie Mountains. Of course, we won't receive the whole thing right away. The IRS seems

> Not only are physically unattractive teenagers likely to be stay-at-homes on prom night, they're also more likely to grow up to be criminals, say two economists who tracked the life course of young people from high school through early adulthood. > "We find that

> Prompted by a New York City nonprofit group that pushes a soybean-based coffee substitute, Rawson issued a proclamation declaring March as National Caffeine Awareness Month in Shaker Heights. . . . > Rawson's proclamation says caffeine consumption is linked to heart disease, hypoglycemia, central nervous system disorders and some

> A school bus driver has been accused of creating a hierarchy among his middle school charges that encouraged older students to bully younger ones to keep order [http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--schoolbus-bullies0203feb03,0,200218,print.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork] .

Boy, you'd expect more from a Hollywoodite: > New Zealand filmmaker Lee Tamahori, who directed the James Bond movie "Die Another Day," has been arrested in a Hollywood prostitution sting while dressed in drag. R-Rated Link [http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/02/02/060203014239.

This kid really has eclectic tastes: Oprah, Bush, Wal-Mart, and Coke. Those are the four pillars of society, no? I'm not sure how the Pope got left off the list, though. > The Secret Service is investigating a seventh grader who wrote a school essay that authorities

Remind me of this, if they ever decide to name a battleship after me: San Francisco wants to turn a portion of the battleship Iowa into museum that tells the story of minorities in the military, including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender troops. Link [http://www.qctimes.net/articles/2006/