Days after the Diocese of Orange County, California announced a multi-million dollar settlement to four female sex abuse victims, three of the four came forward to reveal their identities. Here’s the latest from the Orange County Register: Three women who settled their sexual abuse lawsuits against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange for millions of…

Notre Dame’s celebrated president, Theodore Hesburgh, is still alive and kicking –and collecting accolades on the occasion of his 90th birthday. The Chicago Tribune has this nice tribute, from some female admirers: Rev. Ted Hesburgh, University of Notre Dame’s legendary president, is 90 years old, his eyesight waning to the point that he can no…

The New York Times’ Janet Maslin — one-time movie critic who now fancies herself a book critic — has taken a look at the new masterpiece, “I Am America, And So Can You,” by My Close Personal Friend Stephen Colbert. Ms. Maslin — who is not now and never will be My Close Personal Friend…

The Nobel Prizes are being announced this week. Which means it’s time for the “Ig Nobel Prizes” — awarded every year to the ludicrous and the laughable, but otherwise extremely valuable scientific and artistic contributions to humanity. What would Alfred Nobel (pictured to the left) think? I’m sure he’d quote the inimitable J.J. Walker: “Dy-no-MITE!”…

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