Baylor University is the largest Baptist university in the world. Lest anyone charge the institution with resting on such laurels, it will soon become the first university in the world to offer a vaccine for cocaine addiction.

Just one inoculation and your brain on drugs will look just like your brain on Wheetabix (a wholesome, tasty breakfast food, you’ll all agree).

Question: If you have a fear of needles, can the vaccine be snorted?

After the Pope’s now-famous Regensburg Address, a group of scholars wrote a response whose signatories came to number 138 scholars and leaders in the Muslim world. This spring three of those scholars will travel to the Vatican to discuss “respect for the dignity of each person, interreligious dialogue based on reciprocal understanding, and instruction of tolerance among the young.” The full story is here at Breitbart.com.

Advance copies of the new issue—dated February 2008—just arrived in our office. That’s usually good news, but this time, ugh. The issue features an article by Cardinal Dulles called, “Who Can Be Saved?” And there, on page 22, at the end of the article, is a world-class printer’s error. The leading suddenly expands, forcing the last paragraphs off the page and into limbo. Worse, that is just where Cardinal Dulles makes the turn to say, “We may conclude with certitude . . . ”

Awful. Awful. Awful. We’ve made the complete text available here on the website, with our sincere apologies to our subscribers.

As Big Daddy liked to say: mendacity, she-e-e-er mendacity.

This is why eBay is so popular. You just can’t trust these big auction houses anymore . . .

Tonsure twirl to James Taranto.