No TV & More

• Don't you just hate this in-between time for tv seasons? No new epsiodes of "Alias," Boston Public," "24," "The Shield," "West Wing," or "ER." At least I can look forward to new episodes of "Lucky" and "The World Series of Poker."
• Stephen Glover aka Steve-O of MTV's "Jackass" admitted in a Swedish court that he had drugs in his hotel room. "I had an ecstasy pill in my bag and I smoked marijuana in the hotel room. I admit to both of those crimes," Steve-O said but claimed he was joking about swallowing a condom filled with marijuana and hashish. Jackass indeed!
• A judge overturned a convicted murderer's death sentence because jurors consulted Biblical passages such as an "eye for an eye" during death-penalty deliberations. Would there have been a conviction if they had read "turn the other cheek?"
• A philosophy student took her virginity off the auction block after an anonymous benefactor lent her the tuition money she lacked. "To give or not to give -THAT is the question."
• Spiders have infested a county jail in northeast Arkansas, biting at least 15 inmates and confounding the exterminator. Confounding the exterminator? "Uh warden, I'm a bit confused... those little buggers are too fast for a needle and they won't sit in the chair! What am I to do?"
• Meow Mix chief executive officer Richard Thompson is recovering — with his sense of humor intact — after being bitten by a Rottweiler. "Talk about turning the other cheek."