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This has a smack of scientific goop, but it rings true to us: > The distractions of constant emails, text and phone messages are a greater threat to IQ and concentration than taking cannabis, according to a survey of befuddled volunteers. Link. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,

Maybe the Gainesville Public Library has a Planned Parenthood department. Link. [http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050421/LOCAL/204210361/1078/news] > When Shirley White-Satcher's 12-year-old son sat down Sunday night to watch what she thought was a Disney movie checked out from the

We didn't realize it, but 2005 is the quatrimillennial (quarter millennium) of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language. His wasn't the first dictionary, though. The first was Robert Cawdray's A Table Alphabeticall, compiled, as he described it, for "ladies ... or

Population projections from the U.S. Census Bureau show that the eight fastest growing states are "red states" and that blue states are shrinking fast. This, no doubt, will have an adverse effect on blue states' political clout, especially in New England. LINK. [http://www.boston.com/

Draft Day 2005. The biggest non-event event of the year. It's our understanding that ESPN will dedicate over twelve hours to people talking on phones. Don't get us wrong. We like football and we enjoy the draft, but to watch it on TV for prolonged periods?

Crux Magazine's website has a hard-hitting article by Dawn Eden about Planned Parenthood's pitch to teenagers. Link [http://www.cruxmag.com/asset/CRUX_everybody.html] (Note: This stuff is scarcely fit for a frat house sex party). Excerpt: > Teenwire does observe one single and incontrovertible

"Eighth-grade counselor Margo Lucero, filling in for absent principal Kathleen Norton, changed a portion of the Pledge from 'one nation under God' to 'one nation under your belief system,' while on the public- address system Wednesday morning." Link [http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,

May is almost here and that means May sweeps: the time when TVs struggle mightily for viewership and good ratings so they can hike their advertising prices. Television shows will be trying all sorts of stunts--from sudden plot turns to lasciviousness to violence--to lure viewers. Example: "Entertainment Tonight"

PBS is transforming the Cookie Monster. Just in time to coincide with the CDC's admission that the risk of obesity has been overblown. Link [http://www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg200504220746.asp]. Excerpts from column: > After three decades, [PBS] announced he's not a Cookie Monster at

We try not to hammer on the same points that can be found on numerous other web sites (you didn't see any discussion of the Wendy's finger incident here), but we were obliged to join in the Ratzinger/Benedict celebration. We let it die down on