Nepotism can get you very far in the world if you've got the right connections.

Another notable thing that happens this month is the debut of Spycatcher on Star TV. […] But come Wednesday night, he sits in the TV room with his stubby of Foster′s beer and watches Steve Nolan catch dirty foreigners (called Commies) selling secrets to some Russian organization called the KGB.

For many people, traditional Christian theology is a Humpty-Dumpty: it has tumbled from its perch and can't be put together again.

But at Delphi the sun-god's spiritual bride was known in the days of Herodotus as the Pythoness, and later as Pythia.