Monday Quick Fix Six (3/29/04):

It's Monday, and the first day in the rest of our lives. Now that Hot Potatoes is no more in print, I'll have to figure out what to do with all my free time. Mebbe walk along the north shore beach during the lunch hour. Mebbe go home at a decent time. Mebbe ... ah, fugeddaboutit ... I'm already figuring out something to do ... full-length columns. Dunno if I can concentrate long enough on one subject to write 18 inches. So, stay tuned. Meanwhile, here' your fix:

1. You know who won at the Oscars. But do you know who won the Christian Film and Television Commission's? Hint: A movie named after a little fish and another based on a triology about wizards, orcs and fairies. You can find all the CFTC's best here.

2. So, what do our good friends, the Pakistanis, really thing of us? Sixty-five percent think Osama bin Laden's a great guy, and 46 percent believe the attacks on Westerners were justified. With allies like this, who needs enemies? Click here. (Meanwhile, you can find out why Osama's bad guys are still trying to kill Pakistani prez Musharraf here.)

3. Dick Lamm, the former Demo guv of Colorado, is being labeled a neo-Nazi and worse by his Sierra Club, ahem, colleagues as he runs for the board of directors of Gang Green. Why? He had the audacity to speak out against our unprecedented immigration. Columnist John Leo opines here.

4. Remember when society looked down on women who stayed home to take care of their kids? Mebbe it still does. But there's a growing back-to-home movement that's reaching women whom the feminists once believed would never again look homeward. They're now featured in a Time mag cover story. Columnist Suzanne Field discusses it here.

5. Not so fast. John Flipflop Kerry has a Vietnam War record, too, one before and after the war. And the Media-ocrity seem content on ignoring what he did when he came back from Vietnam -- other than cursory treatment of his anti-war speech before Congress. Click here.

6. Few Americans know the Middle East like former Kootenai County resident Dave Dolan. He talks about the demise of terrorist Ahmed Yassin here.

--Chicago Sun-Times editorial: Atheists don't have the right to edit out God. Click here.

--Matt C. Abbott sez right-to-lifers should return to their basic message: abortion kills, always. Click here.

--Pope John Paul II: Sunday should be preserve for the Lord, not sports. Click here.

--Neil Cavuto is sick of the 9/11 commissioner, too. Click here.