Miscellaneous

Saw this in a WaPo [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/14/AR2005111401051.html] caption: > Boot camps are one of the top fitness trends of 2005, according to a study by the American Council on Exercise. Americans and their extremes. Scale back on your food and

Kind of a slow day for the blog. I woke up this morning, feeling like I had the flu. After a few items of unpleasantness, it slowly passed, but now I'm dealing with a backlog at the office, occasional tremors from the earlier sickness, and a dearth of

The NYT ran a piece today about China's ban on burials [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/10/business/worldbusiness/10coffin.html]. Excerpts: > The suppression of coffin sales and the requirement that the dead must be cremated instead of buried began soon after the Communist takeover in

When bad conduct isn't discouraged, it's encouraged [http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/53944.htm]: > [New York] City Department of Education figures obtained and released yesterday by an AIDS advocacy group show that 167 of the city's 379 high schools have ordered 310

Giving the Arabs another excess to hate: Alex: 220 Abbie: 280 Jack: 250 Michael: 165 Meg: 150 Max: 100 1,165 pieces of candy for the Scheske clan. (Numbers are approximations, based on a quick count and tampering check.)

The RCC isn't the only administratively-challenged church in America? > Administrators at a private Manhattan school admitted yesterday they never checked with church officials before hiring a former priest who allegedly molested a student in Central Park last week. > Episcopal authorities said the ex-priest, Bruce Jacques, had

> It's getting scary out there. More Americans than not – 48 to 45 percent – believe in ghosts, a CBS News survey found. > Women are the likelier true believers, 56 to 38 percent – and one in five Americans, or 22 percent, insist that they've actually seen

Lighten up, Francis: > "It's an American custom that's got nothing to do with our culture," Kohler wrote in letters sent out to households. By midweek, the mayors of eight neighboring villages had thrown their support behind the boycott. So had local police, annoyed

Maybe they're just nuts, but not mentally ill. Kinda like Timothy Robbins: > [T]here is a striking similarity in alien abduction claims: such as big eyes, strange skin color of aliens, being "probed" by the aliens and telepathic communication. > Scientists argue that the reason

Follow-up to an earlier post [https://thedailyeudemon.com/2779/]. The man has three daughters. Does he want his daughters to be lap dancers and pole mates? But wait. He makes $600,000 a year. Such degrading acts are only for the skankier girls. > A married executive dubbed the "