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Marshall McLuhan and Walter Ong recognized the legitimacy of comics. Today, they're back on the rise. > The push for comics has produced an interesting set of bedfellows. A collaboration of artists, teachers and scholars, the National Association of Comics Art Educators, is distributing study guides and lesson

> Beckett Media, whose pricing guides are the acknowledged arbiters of value for collectible trading cards, said on Tuesday a limited-edition Pope John Paul II from the 2005 World Treasures line of card maker Topps has sold for $8,100. Link [http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&

This is kind of like a preacher caught soliciting a prostitute: > Lawyers selected a jury Monday that will decide whether Greenpeace and its contract ship were criminally negligent by failing to have the proper oil spill response paperwork during an anti-logging campaign. > The environmental activist group, the captain

The ACLU reacts to Texas' looming ban on suggestive cheerleading: > Director of the ACLU Will Harrell says the new bill reminds him of Afghanistan's former ruling regime, the Taliban. > "This broad, morally restrictive legislation reminds me of the Taliban," he said. Link [http:

> Children who use marijuana before age 12 are twice as likely to later develop serious mental illness as those who don't try the drug until they're 18, according to a federal report released Tuesday. Link [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,155396,00.html]

We received this from a reader. We haven't verified his stat, but we know the sender to be a reliable fellow: > If you consider that there have been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraqi theater during the last 22 months, that gives a firearm

Another great post from Dawn Eden this morning, this time about plans to distribute 100,000 free condoms around NYC, mostly (it would appear) for the benefit of the homosexual community. Link to The Dawn Patrol [http://www.dawneden.com/blogger.html]. Excerpt: > And people say the Roman Catholic

If you're interested in religious interpretation of modern film, Christianity Today has a lengthy review of three books that tackle the subject. Link [http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2005/003/9.43.html]. Excerpt: > In Catching Light: Looking for God in the Movies, Anker organizes his detailed

> An advocacy group for Hispanics is demanding an apology from the bride-to-be who skipped town days before her lavish wedding and falsely claimed she had been abducted by a Hispanic man. Link [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/05/03/national/a160007D96.DTL] . Eric

A restaurant is supposedly having success with a toilet-themed restaurant. The dishes look like little toilets, the chairs are toilets. Only in America? Nope, Taiwan. Link. [http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2005/05/toilet_bowl_res.php?rss]