And here is an encore….
Donald Trump vs. Mark Singer
As far as I am concerned Mark Singer won this pairing hands down. The story gets particularly funny at the end.
Singer writes: Never having met Timothy O’Brien, the Times reporter who finds himself on the receiving end of a five-billion-dollar libel-and-defamation suit from Donald Trump, I don’t presume to know whether he’s having fun yet. [Read More]
The Dalai Lama and Science
Last July, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, the archbishop of Vienna, wanted to turn back the clock in the catholic church. Breaking with two generations of catholic scholars, Schoenborn did his best to portray the teaching of the catholic church as being in opposition to a Darwinian explanation of the development of different life forms (see below 
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[Read More] Comedy Central on Cheney’s Hunting Mishap
The shooting was fertile ground for Jon Stewart, the host of “The
Daily Show,” the popular fake news program on Comedy Central. On
Monday night one of the show’s correspondents, Rob Corddry, introduced
as a “vice-presidential firearms mishap analyst,” said that “according
to the best intelligence available, there were quail hidden in the
brush,” and 
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[Read More] My Sperm as Big Business
Until a few weeks ago, I was an innocent virgin as far as the brave new world of fertility clinics was concerned. Now I am thinking about quitting my day job and becoming a professional sperm donor. Granted, I don’t have the brains of Albert Einstein or the athleticism of Roger Federer. But the first 
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[Read More] Is Christianity Compatible with Republican Values?
I always found it curious that fundamental Christians preferred in large numbers Republicans over Democrats. After all, the core values of the democratic party seem to be much more in tune with Christianity. At least one evangelic pastor woke up recently and remembered that Christians are supposed to support peace and not war. Read this [Read More]
In her Shoes
Two sisters, Maggie (Cameron Diaz) and Rose (Toni Collette), could not be more different. Maggie gets any man she wants but is not able to hold a steady job and support herself financially. Rose has no success with men and is climbing up the corporate ladder in a high prestige law firm. When Rose finally 
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[Read More] Nina Simon’s “Mississippi Goddam”
Nina Simone has been one of my favored jazz singers for a long time. I counted myself until January 16th as a connoisseur of her entire work. But on Martin Luther King day I heard her civil rights song Mississippi Goddam on the radio that showed me that having all her „Best of CDs“ 
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[Read More] Everyone can be a Novelist
At least Chris Bay thinks so in his new handbook, No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress High Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days. Bay tells us in the opening pages of his treatise that he once believed that you needed several things to start writing a novel in descending order of importance: 
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[Read More] The Terminator of Speech
“The doctor then told me that I should not do any events for three days and also said to me I should not speak for three days. My wife said, ‘Make it seven.’” Arnold Schwarzenegger, California Governor, after cutting his lip in a motorcycle crash in Los Angeles.
Postscript: July 7, 2006
Schwarzenegger Finally Gets a License
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