Juan at Boozhy (whom I told a couple of years ago he could pass as one of my relatives) is asking: What the hell is an electro-magnetic induction ring?

The worst sex scandal in the Catholic Church.

I saw a great movie yesterday: Downfall -- "a movie that does not fall into the trap to paint a simplistic picture of good and evil. The quintessence of Nazi-evil is exposed in all its banality: i.e. a total lack of empathy and disregard for human dignity (including their own and that of the German people)."

Ethicist: "When someone publishes, on paper or on-screen, it's fair to assume that she consents to everybody's reading her work -- fair but not entirely reliable."