at the BBC’s “Have Your Say”: What impact will the Pope’s Turkey visit have? How important is the Pope’s visit? The Pope has wrapped up his trip to Turkey by saying Mass in a Catholic cathedral in Istanbul, and issuing a plea for freedom of religion in Turkey. The four-day visit was seen as an attempt to repair the damage his comments on Islam in September caused across the Muslim

In the low-tax Swiss canton of Zug, Lived a man up whose ass dwelt no bug; Folks asked, would he care For a new derriere? “No!” answered the insolent thug.

As many of you know, I’m a bit of a film buff—and my DVD collection contains thousands of titles.  So I’m wondering:  is it feasible to build a media server that can hold that many DVDs on a hard drive array (I figure I’d probably need 15-20 tb)?  If so, how would I go about it, and what other equipment would I need to operate / organize the server?  I

Richard Miniter starts his column about the release of new information on the flying imams by saying, “The case of U.S. Airways flight 300 gets stranger by the minute.” Well, not to me.  My first thought when I read about the incident was that it was exactly what passenger and witness “Pauline” says it was in a letter to U.S. Airways, a stunt to get airlines to ease up on

Carnal Cruise Lines and Time Magazine are teaming up to offer a fabulous tour of Gay Catholic Italy, hosted by Andrew Sullivan: I’ve often wondered how many straight Catholics fully appreciate how gay their church has always been. Especially in the old days. High Mass was, in its heyday, more elaborate and choreographed than a very melodramatic Broadway musical. Do people really believe that gay priests and religious had nothing

I’m curious. This is a very manly blog and I have a question for the manly men who read this blog: Would you use the Male Contraceptive Pill? Here’s some more info: However the new pill being researched by scientists at King’s College London, contains chemicals that prevent ejaculation and could be in tablet-form. Men could take one daily, just like the female pill, or have one a few hours

From the Manufacturing News Desk: Nearly two-thirds of Britons think the fiery Italian sauce Arrabiata is a sex infection, according to a survey on Friday. The survey, of 1,015 people and released on World AIDS day, also showed nearly half were unable to identify a range of common sexual complaints. “What is very worrying is the lack of knowledge about sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) revealed in the survey,” said sex

Before I go out and get “defeated” in a snowball fight with my kids (their word, not mine) I thought I would make my last guest post.  I give you the Blizzard Edition of the News of Afghanistan. “Lets hear from our traffic reporter in Parwan, Major John.” “Uh, traffic sucks…” “What?” “Really, it has actually been sucked into the mucky strip of ground that has been alleged to be

I just received the following press release from FIRE’s Director of Legal and Public Advocacy, Samantha Harris, which details how institutions of higher learning use threats of reprisal to chill student speech.  In this case, the University in question is one of my alma maters, Johns Hopkins—heightening my outrage: […] Johns Hopkins University has suspended a student for an entire year for posting Halloween party invitations that some students found

“Graphic Novel” illustrator Dave Cockrum wasn’t just drawing the dream, he lived it, all the way down to his Underoos. X-Men’s Dave Cockrum Dies at 63 By KATRINA A. GOGGINS The Associated Press Tuesday, November 28, 2006; 6:01 PM COLUMBIA, S.C.—Comic book illustrator Dave Cockrum, who in the 1970s overhauled the X-Men and helped popularize the relatively obscure Marvel Comics title into a publishing sensation and eventually a major film