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Don't Match.com

> Match.com is being accused of sending ringers on fake dates with lonely hearts to keep them from dumping the service. > A racketeering lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Nov. 10 alleges the wildly popular online dating service secretly employs people as "date bait" to send bogus

Could We be the Apple of God's Eye?

The Internet has crashed UFOs [http://www.techcentralstation.com/110905A.html]. One of the best observations of the year. Excerpt: > The modern UFO era began with Kenneth Arnold's 1947 UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington. National interest in the subject waxed and waned in the following years

The Weekend Eudemon

Are you ready to rumble? Michigan is, as is Ohio. It's the day of "The Game." Michigan is ranked 17th and OSU 9th. It's not the greatest match-up of the year, but it's still the country's biggest game. I'

Misc. 11.18.05

Aaaargh! My town's theater didn't bring in Walk the Line! (Durn that Harry Potter.) The next nearest theater is 30 miles away. Decisions will have to be made. What's up with MyYahoo? It's running slower than molasses in December and a few

Can't Call Someone a Jewish Fag

> A gay Jewish man's discrimination lawsuit against the Salvation Army can keep marching on, a Manhattan judge has ruled. > In a decision made public yesterday, state Supreme Court Justice Richard Braun denied the Christian charitable organization's bid to throw out Zachary Logan's

Brews You Can Use III

> Archeologists in southern Peru have uncovered a brewery dating to about 1000 A.D., and, in a new research paper, conclude that it was staffed by "elite brew mistresses" probably selected for their "beauty or nobility."' Link [http://www.realbeer.com/news/articles/news-002772.

Fleiss Comes Back

Well, if this blog thing doesn't work out, at least I'll have options: > Former "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss is looking for a few good men. > Fleiss has decided to return to the world's oldest profession – and says this time she&

Is God an Accident II

Pretty good analysis at AI Cont. regarding the Bloom piece (is God an Accident?). [http://the-american-interest.com/contd/?p=95] Excerpt from conclusion: > The problem here isn't with Darwin; it's with Dawkins (and Bloom, and, across the aisle, Intelligent Design boosters). He is (and they

Is God an Accident?

One of the feature articles of December's Atlantic Monthly [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200512/god-accident] is a (ball park) 5,000-word essay entitled, "Is God an Accident" by Paul Bloom. Although written respectfully, the article tries to undermine religious faith by pointing to recent studies

Thai Trans

I find this funny: > Thai transvestites are often pretty enough to fool tourists and expatriates into taking them home for the night, but the unwary foreign visitor risks losing his wallet as well as his pride, Thai police warned Monday. > Members of a transvestite gang have confessed to