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• Position: The eBay auction service reportedly turned down a man who wanted to sell his soul, because there was no evidence of its existence; this and other items are discussed

Love Hurts

From a Reuters on-line article datelined Miami, Florida, on a phone sex operator who won a workers' compensation settlement: "The now forty-year-old employee of Fort Lauderdale's CFP Enterprises, Inc., said she developed carpal tunnel syndrome--also known as repetitive motion injury--in both hands from masturbating as many as seven times a day while speaking with callers."

Everyone Has a Price

"EBay, Inc., an Internet auction site, banned a California man from selling his soul to the highest bidder because there was no proof the item for sale actually existed," reported Deutsche Presse-Agentur. "In the past, several sales of souls got through the eBay system unhindered, with prices ranging between $1 and $10."

Rudy Meets Karl

From a New York Times article on Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's crusade against Marxism: "The mayor's latest encounter with the Red Menace came as he faced down the threatened strike from the Transport Workers Union and its dissident faction, the New Directions Caucus.... `There are people who want to cause anarchy,' the mayor warned.... `One of the leaders of New Directions said he would take away the profit orgy of Christmas from businesses.... It's a true misunderstanding of what America is all about. That comes from the influence of Marxism, and if you need any better indication of it, it was said at a Marxist study group.'"

Camp Megabucks

From an article in the Los Angeles Times on a Los Angeles Family magazine ad headlined "Do You Want Your Child to Be a Millionaire?": "The ad pitched a `Millionaire Camp' in Lake Arrowhead that says, `Give your child the tools to become successful in business,' and promises to teach children ages nine to sixteen about `business planning, marketing, pricing, sales, saving, investing, and the stock market.'" The millionaire camp costs $1,900 for a two-week stay.

KKK, Ha, Ha, Ha

From a Reuters story datelined Buenos Aires: "Argentine human rights groups have demanded a magazine ad for Hawaiian Tropic suntan lotion, depicting a suntanned man being dragged off by the Ku Klux Klan, be withdrawn because it is offensive to blacks.... It portrays white-robed and hooded members of the white supremacist group hauling away an incredulous white man from the side of a private swimming...