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Rodrigo Revisited? Note: The following post turned out to be false (see explanation above) With the Holy Father failing, one Cardinal has apparently made it known that he's the man for the job: "'When the Sacred College of Cardinals names me pope, I'm gonna

Prom to Porn We've been knocking sororities lately, but fraternities aren't any better. There are all sort of stories out there, this one being the most recent: California State University has suspended the charter of Phi Kappa Tau after it hosted a porn party. Students participated

More Whistling at Construction Sites A report in England says girls are discouraged from pursuing non-traditional female jobs (e.g., construction). LINK [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4395565.stm]. That's surprising. Back in our school days, we recall girls being pushed to non-traditional jobs

That's a Tiny Mannequin! "Police are looking for two women who stole a 'plastinated' 13-week old fetus from the Body Worlds 2 exhibit in Los Angeles. Surveillance tape showed the two thieves lingering at the exhibit, then taking the specimen from its case." LINK

More from Those Crazy Courts! From the Wall Street Journal: "The U.S. Supreme Court may cite precedent from Jamaica and Zimbabwe, but jurors cannot rely on the Bible for wisdom, the Colorado Supreme Court has ruled. The latter high court threw out the death sentence of Robert Harlan,

Now That's Good Sex! According to a survey, "'Half of the country sleeps pretty well -- the other half has problems.' What is to blame? The survey of more than 1,500 adults found that 87 percent usually watched TV in the hour before going

That Cutting Edge is Soooo Passé "The number of women who choose to keep their surname when they get married has dropped significantly in the last 20 years since the fashion's peak in the mid-1980s." Authors of a new study estimate that "a little under

Stalinist U Another instance of a study confirming what everyone already knew: “American professors are overwhelmingly liberal, according to a new report [http://www.bepress.com/forum/vol3/iss1/art2/] on faculty political attitudes. “Previous surveys have reached similar conclusions, but this one suggests that the ideological divide on campuses

Shape Up and Fly Right, Parents “Two-thirds of teenage children of parents who said religion is extremely important to them say religion is extremely important or very important in their own lives, while half of teens whose parents say that religion is not very important to them agree with their

Sorry We Couldn't Be There Sounds like there was a lot of fun at the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Media Awards dinner. Held at the Marriott Marquis in NYC, Jon Stewart greeted everyone via videotape with a shot at the religious right, “Good evening, Godless sodomites!