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Funny op-ed in the Telegraph today about "being to the right of Genghis Kahn." LINK [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;sessionid=VPREN1CNOPVJ3QFIQMGSM5OAVCBQWJVC?xml=/opinion/2005/04/18/dl1803.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/04/18/ixportal.html] . Excerpt: > But does Genghis really deserve his

Yet another instance of colleges gone wild, this time at UC Berkeley, supposedly one of the finest public institutions in the country. LINK. [http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/04/16/BAG0PC9U621.DTL] > The [frat brothers] took the [pledge] to a room and stripped him

Los Angeles has a new homeless shelter. LINK [http://csmonitor.com/2005/0418/p01s01-uspo.html]. Excerpt: > Opening Monday and trumpeted proudly by city officials is the Midnight Mission - and one of the nation's plushest homeless shelters. The $17 million state-of-the-art facility boasts a full-sized gymnasium, library,

It's a new angle on an old passion: computer rage. In a time when most everyone depends on computers for most everything, anger is mounting when things go wrong. We gotta believe McLuhan would really enjoy this type of phenomenon. LINK [http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=

One organization is taking steps to make sure the eBay sale of the Eucharist doesn't occur again. LINK [http://www.tfp.org/what_we_do/index/ebay_request.htm] . We wish them well and encourage our readers to support the effort.

They're taking that New Age stuff pretty far in one Iowa village: "It's official: Maharishi Vedic City has gone all natural. "The town of about 200 in southeast Iowa has become what some experts believe is the first all-organic city in the country. "

A freak seven-story wave that slammed into a cruise ship sent furniture sailing through the air, knocked Jacuzzis overboard and forced some passengers to sleep in hallways in life jackets. LINK [http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CRUISE_SHIP_DIVERTED?SITE=APWEB&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT] .

We missed this one. We assume that short hair has now become the rage in Berkeley, Madison, and Ann Arbor: > Bureaucrats in North Korea's Communist Party, summarizing their understanding of the way the brain works, announced in January that, henceforth, all men would be expected to wear

From News of the Weird (no link available, sorry): TalkToAliens.com began taking orders in March, recording people's messages at $3.99 per minute and beaming them into space, aimed toward the Milky Way by a huge parabolic dish antenna in Connecticut on a relatively accessible FM frequency.

V. Gene Robinson, the gay Episcopalian "bishop" from New Hampshire, is a supporter of Planned Parenthood, it would appear. He spoke at Planned Parenthood's fifth annual prayer breakfast last week about political battles. Two quotes: "Our defense against religious people has to be a religious