-Cavet Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> -Cui Bono- SkeptiNews 000110f - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * No virgins were heaped with dung during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Treasure Map: http://members.xoom.com/0rpheus/hofc/gold.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'Sensation' exhibit closes. NEW YORK (AP) - Art lovers and the morbidly curious flocked to the Brooklyn Museum in large numbers for a last look at the controversial "Sensation" art exhibit with its dung-decorated Madonna. As the crowd swelled on the final day of the exhibit's 3-month run, about two dozen demonstrators stood outside, singing hymns and reciting "Hail Mary," a Catholic prayer, in protest of what they claim is a blasphemous painting of the Virgin Mary. Satanic art-heads cackled gleefully as they chanted: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563161904-342 : What's your favorite blasphemous art? Have you created any blasphemous art lately? Have you been struck down by any deities lately? Did it hurt much?? @ BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY: Just what is a Bohemian? And are any left in America? http://slate.com/Code/Culturebox/Culturebox.asp?Show=1/9/00&idMessage=4337 @ TWO PROBABLE FRAUDS: The turkey on the Bayeux Tapestry. The crystal skull in the British Museum. http://knowledge.co.uk/frontiers/sf103/sf103a03.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # STILL HERE: Huxley, Yeats and Orwell painted bleak visions of the future into which we've entered. Not so bad though now that we've got here, is it? A look at what made their versions of our time so grim. http://www.ireland.com/dublin/entertainment/books/huxley0103.htm : Was 1984 better than 1948? Is the Wasteland really wasted? What's your favorite Animal Farm? Are you more equal than your neighbors? Are we all? @ BEATING UP ON BEAUTY: In the 90s, notions of beauty were stirred around like ingredients in a soup. Does beauty matter any more in art? Did it ever? http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2000/01/10/beauty/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UFO Chased by F-18's in Pensacola. This may be a little late, but back during the alleged UFO sightings in Gulf Breeze, FL, me and five others saw a very unusual sight: http://www.caus.org/mu011000.htm : Are you a jet pilot? Have you chased any UFOs lately? Have any chased you? Did anyone catch anything? When ya catch'em, whaddya do with'em? What else? # John Kennedy Jr. and Cattle Mutilations: http://www.caus.org/pn011000.htm # Space Rocket Crashes at Roswell - in 1934! http://caus.org/mu011000b.htm # Illinois Police See Huge 'Arrowhead' Shaped 'Starfield Camouflage' UFO - it's not funny anymore: http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/arrowhead.htm @ Life Beyond Earth. Is there life on other worlds? Join the search for an answer here, including solar system exploration and possible UFOs. You can even write to an alien! http://pbs.org/lifebeyondearth/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Germany's Catholics deny pope plea. BERLIN (AP) - After causing a stir in the Vatican, Germany's Catholic leaders moved quickly to quash reports the country's top bishop had called for Pope John Paul II to step down for health reasons. JPII responded by damning the offending bishop to eternal hellfire. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563174901-4d1 # WE AREN'T THE WORLD: We survived Y2K but attempts New Year's Eve to portray the planet as just one Big Happy Family leave critics cold. "It was the One City Many Cultures theme taken to a new high. Forget germ warfare, forget the millions of missiles poised to strike." Tough to do. http://www.mg.co.za/mg/art/tv/remote/000104-control.html : Does your culture or belief system claim to be universal? Are you beset by schismatic sects anyway? Have you purged many heretics lately? Is that fun? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientists seek to expand cloning. ALBANY, Ga. (AP) Researchers working on cattle cloning aren't just trying to produce a better steak. Eventually, they hope animal cloning will provide new sources of medicines and organs, reduce birth defects and help feed people in poor countries. Clone a pig - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563168920-243 : If your belief system prohibits you from receiving an organ transplant from a cloned pig or cow, do you deserve to die? Will anyone else miss you? # Lies that heal: PLACEBOS are "effective" for many medical problems, saving time & money. Imagine: they could even be prescribed by "doctors": http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20000109mag-talbot7.html : What's your favorite placebo? If it weren't for modern medicine, would all "alternative-healing" patients die off? Would they be missed much? By whom? # Software developed for the blind - next, AI for conservatives: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563169128-702 @ Alfred Russel Wallace had no wealth, poor health, and bad luck. Yet he overcame all, and deserves to stand beside Charles Darwin: http://www.booksunlimited.co.uk/reviews/biography/0,6121,120156,00.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Judge ousts rebel preacher. YORK, Alabama. (AP) New faces started showing up at sleepy York Presbyterian Church when pastor Martin Murphy joined a group that few members of the gray-haired congregation knew much about: The League of the South. Suddenly, the little church was drawing younger people from miles around. The cracked asphalt parking lot - once nearly empty on Sundays - was brimming with cars plastered with Confederate flags and slogans like "Southern Independence Now!" Today, both Murphy and his followers are gone. Not with the wind, but by court order. Acting on a lawsuit by old-line leaders of the 120-year-old church, a court evicted Murphy and his people from York Presbyterian, where they had gained a voting majority. A judge ruled that Murphy and a band of rebels covertly took over the church to promote the League, which wants the South to secede from the Union again. And good riddance to'em, eh? See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563179267-e98 : Does your belief system subvert authority, property, morality? D'ya care? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Merge-o-Rama: # AOL to buy Time Warner for $166 bln, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563176076-b50 # Also: AOL, Time Warner at a glance, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563174149-b8f # TIME WARNER, AOL MERGER creates new $350 billion company: http://www.variety.com/article.asp?articleID=1117760692 # Will Yahoo buy Disney? 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