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Don't Know How We Missed This From Friday's New York Post: The New York City man infected with the "superstrain" of the AIDS virus had sex with at least 10 men after he tested HIV-positive, according to new information released yesterday. LINK [http://www.

Vulgar but Funny and On Yet more about Chris Rock and tonight's Academy Awards. This time, from Slate Magazine [http://slate.msn.com/id/2113952/]: "Rock may speak the irreverent language of blue comedy, but more often than not, his ideas are red-state red. "Take, for

Dysfunctional Oscar For those who missed the Catholic League's William Donahue's comments on tonight's Oscars. LINK [http://www.catholicleague.org/05press_releases/quarter%201/050223_Hollywoodmindset.htm] . Here's the opening paragraph: “This year's Oscar nominees tell us a great deal

Teens Don't Still Worship Elvis? To be published this week: Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers (Oxford University Press). The book is based on a comprehensive four-year study by 133 researchers and consultants. It appears Catholic youth won't fare well: "On

An Art Linkletter Anecdote At bedtime last night, Eric Scheske's Kindergarten son Michael informed his Dad that he knew the Holy Family's last name. "Really?" Eric asked. "What is it?" Michael: "Christ."

The Heart Every sin gushes from a complex soul. The Pseudo-Macarius, a master of intimate theology, described the heart (a term nearly synonymous with soul) as follows: "The heart itself is but a small vessel, yet dragons are there, and there are also lions; there are poisonous beasts and

Better than the Boston Tea Party We've been blessed with plenty of drinking items lately. Now there's this story about the Japanese's efforts to get around their government's onerous beer tax. According to the article: "By using less malt and more

And Pete Singer Would Say . . .? "Kraft Foods, the No. 1 U.S. foodmaker, will stop making its Road Kill candy after consumers and animal-rights activists complained about the sweets shaped like flattened snakes, chickens and squirrels and marked by tire treads. "Road Kill, part of Kraft's

The Tinsel Clothing We're surprised there's not more talk about the Academy Awards and Hollywood Boulevard. Hollywood Boulevard is one of the most crime-ridden and drug-infested areas of Southern California. According to the morning DJs on WLS in Chicago, they'll need to roll out

The Weekend Eudemon Effectively Ineffective Eric Scheske received a fair amount of hate mail from natural family planning advocates when he--in the throes of his wife's fourth, then fifth, then seventh unexpected pregnancies--expressed doubts about NFP's effectiveness. Writing in Gilbert Magazine, for instance, he said, "