Jim Lovell is one shit-hot guy and was a stalwart in the Gemini and Apollo programs. His fame went ballistic after his book Lost Moon and Ron Howard's movie Apollo 13 were released, but in recent years he seems to have quietly disappeared into retirement in Chicagoland. Like most pilots, he kept some mementos of his fascinating career, one of which was the checklist he used on the Apollo 13 mission. Bearing his own personal notes and calculations on how to get the crippled spacecraft safely back to Earth, this thing proved to be worth far more than the paper it was written on.

The item went up for auction a few months ago and fetched a whopping $388,000, but the sale won't go through if NASA has its way. Forget that he saved the mission and some might argue the entire Apollo program - NASA claims he does not hold title to it and as such it should be returned to the agency. This in spite of an internal NASA memo in 1972 allowing the astronauts to keep certain personal items as long as they were notified.

This isn't the first time they've gone after an Apollo astronaut for trying to sell space memorabilia. Rusty Swigert (Apollo 9, 13) hocked a couple of pieces in the same auction, including a stick grip which fetched over $22k. And Loony moon man Edgar Mitchell was busted last June trying to sell a camera from Apollo 14 for $80k - a camera that in other Apollo missions was typically left on the surface of the moon.

Cameras and stick grips might fall out of the "personal items" realm, but a checklist? I mean, what's more personal than an item which sat in your G-suit pocket 99.9% of the time? I guess I better hide my old T-41 Mescalero boldface card from Hondo, not to mention the various Non-Nuclear -34's I kept over the years...lest the Feds come-a-lookin!

Jon Stewart described SC Gov Mark Sanford as "just another conservative mind with a liberal penis", while Sanford's 'spiritual adviser' says the whole affair is simply a case of Sanford being caught up by "the power of darkness." The deaths of MJ, Farrah and Billy Mays knocked the scandal from the front page, but anxiously awaited photos of 'that other woman' surfaced over the weekend. Yesterday the spiritual adviser, Warren "Cubby" Culbertson, was flapping his gums about what a really good Christian Sanford really is.

Cubby was the group leader of a bible study group known as the Round Table, which offers a "boot camp" for couples undergoing marital strain. Sanford and his wife signed up for this back in January - right after his wife busted him with emails professing his undying love for his Argentinian hose bag. Apparently after several sessions his wife Jenny saw through the bullshit and booted him out of the house...

Which brings up one of Spike's undeniable corollaries to human behavior: Show me a born-again Christian and I'll show you some guy who can't handle his booze,  got caught cheating on his wife...or both!