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The Associated Press reports that Ted Haggard has emerged from three intensive weeks of counseling "completely heterosexual." Completely. Really, he really is.

I mentioned recently that the US incarcerates a larger fraction of its citizens than any other country in the world. Yesterday I came across a couple more tidbits:

1. The state of Michigan spends more on prisons than it does on public universities
2. Spending on prisons takes approximately 20 % of the state's general fund.

So sad. Something has got to change.

From the current issue of The Week magazine:

Volos, Greece
An entire convent of Greek Orthodox nuns has fled to another convent to avoid paying close to $1 million in debt from their failed knitting business. The 55 nuns splurged on purchases of industrial knitting machines and by attending foreign fashion shows to get ideas for patterns. The wool clothes they made were popular in Greece, but the business went under when a bank called in the loan. The nuns are now holed up in a convent in Volos, as the Holy Synod negotiates with the bank on their behalf.

From an article of the same title in the LA Times by John Johnson Jr. and Alan Zarembo:

A NASA astronaut was arrested in Florida early Monday and accused of attacking a woman she considered her rival for the love of another astronaut, Orlando police said. Navy Capt. Lisa Marie Nowak, who flew last summer on a shuttle mission to the International Space Station, drove nearly 1,000 miles from her home in Houston to intercept the woman, who was just arriving at Orlando International Airport, police said. Nowak, 43, accosted 30-year-old Air Force Capt. Colleen Shipman in a parking lot and sprayed her with pepper spray in an attempt to kidnap her, according to a police affidavit.

That's not funny, of course, but the wacky part is this:

Police said Nowak drove from Houston wearing diapers so she would not have to stop to relieve herself, the Associated Press reported. Shuttle astronauts wear diapers during launch and reentry.

I'm always skeptical of slippery slope arguments, but here is some supporting evidence. I guess once you start wearing diapers, the convenience makes it tempting to do so under a variety of circumstances. ;-)