Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll and New Sins?

Sex. Yet another politician is caught with his hand in the cookie jar... "Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s political career teetered on the brink of collapse Monday after the corruption-fighting politician once known as “Mr. Clean” was accused of paying for sex with a high-priced call girl." Anyone want to be the new governor of NY?

Drugs. In your drinking water! Researchers do not yet understand the exact risks from decades of persistent exposure to random combinations of low levels of pharmaceuticals... that's why — aside from therapeutic doses of fluoride injected into potable water supplies — pharmaceuticals are prescribed to people who need them, not delivered to everyone in their drinking water. Of course you can argue about the value of the fluoride.

Rock & Roll. Madonna and John Mellencamp have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. "Among the favors distributed to guests was a box of 30 blank CDs, presumably so people wouldn't have to worry about buying CDs anymore." See! No one pays for music anymore!

New Sins? It seems for the Vatican that having only seven deadly sins is just not enough. "Now, the Catholic Church says pollution, mind-damaging drugs and genetic experiments are on its updated thou-shalt-not list. Monsignor Gianfranco Girotti, whose office deals with matters of conscience and grants absolution stated, "If yesterday sin had a rather individualistic dimension, today it has a weight, a resonance, that's especially social, rather than individual." Last year, the Vatican took on the problem of highway accidents, issuing a kind of "Ten Commandments" for drivers against the sins of road rage, alcohol abuse and even rudeness behind the wheel. What next? Banning books?

Not to be confused with The New Sins in London