Giving the Arabs another excess to hate: Alex: 220 Abbie: 280 Jack: 250 Michael: 165 Meg: 150 Max: 100 1,165 pieces of candy for the Scheske clan. (Numbers are approximations, based on a quick count and tampering check.)
About Face appears to be fueled by feminists, but I strongly sympathize with their concerns: [M]arketers are never going to show an ugly slob in an ad because no one wants to see a slob and we all aspire to something greater. But if all we see are unachievable representations of ourselves then certain unhealthy [...]
The RCC isn’t the only administratively-challenged church in America? Administrators at a private Manhattan school admitted yesterday they never checked with church officials before hiring a former priest who allegedly molested a student in Central Park last week. Episcopal authorities said the ex-priest, Bruce Jacques, had been defrocked for allegedly propositioning a 13-year-old boy a [...]
But if there is no God, all is matter because there was no non-material first cause. Maybe the pollsters didn’t get into that much detail. More Britons believe in ghosts than God, according to research. A total of 2,012 people were polled on their beliefs on the supernatural. Over two thirds (68%) said they believe [...]
From Maggie Gallagher: David Bernstein on Volokh.com notes that Judge Sam Alito, if confirmed, will be the fifth Catholic on the Court, making it the first time a majority of Supreme Court Justices are Catholic. He offers this observation: “I’d venture that it’s not simply a result of more enlightenment on the part of non-Catholic [...]
After more than a decade of effort and a year of anticipation, Mars Inc. is finally rolling into stores with what it says is a healthy new sweet: a line of chocolate bars and chocolate-covered almonds. . . [I]t is the glob of granola, rice and flavanol-filled cocoa powder at the heart of the bar [...]
It’s getting scary out there. More Americans than not — 48 to 45 percent — believe in ghosts, a CBS News survey found. Women are the likelier true believers, 56 to 38 percent — and one in five Americans, or 22 percent, insist that they’ve actually seen a ghost. NY Post Link.
Must be why tuition keeps increasing and the quality of education keeps dropping: College presidents are more preoccupied with financial issues than educational ones, according to a new survey by The Chronicle of Higher Education. NYT Link.
Someone wrote a story about this? I would’ve thought it was a foregone conclusion. In a culture that celebrates the SI Swimsuit issue and Hugh Heffner, would you expect anything different? B-list Hollywood celebrities from “it” girl Paris Hilton to actor Tom Sizemore are finding that, far from being a kiss of death, the release [...]
An author at Tech Central Station writes about a video game that even I would enjoy: The fourth entry in the acclaimed Civilization series is based on the same premise as its three predecessors: you are a small, nomadic tribe in 4000 B.C. Your goal: rise to pre-eminence over all other tribes during the course [...]
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