Send Money: Former Marine Oliver North is...

Send Money: Former Marine Oliver North is looking for more than a few good people to help him and Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) fight “blasphemy and the most revolting pornography.” They can do that, he says in a letter, by sending money to him and his right-wing Freedom Alliance. Contributions, he said, will be used to keep tax funds from going to the National Endowment of the Arts.

Send Help: Car theft suspect Charles L. Miller, 23, has filed a discrimination suit against the Citrus County, Fla., County Jail and the sheriff’s office for separating him from his 19-year-old co-defendant and gay lover. “They know me and him are gay and they’re (keeping us apart in jail) out of the evil in their hearts because they have the power,” he told the Tampa Tribune. The suit asks $50,000 in damages.

Send Pencils: A spokesman for Daniel Ortega, the Sandinista leader voted out as president of Nicaragua, says about 16 U.S. publishers are interested in Ortega’s biography. Ortega is in New York discussing the matter. “It will be personal, not polemical,” Paul S. Reichler, a longtime adviser to the Sandinistas, told the New York Times, “although it will of course talk about the triumph of the Sandinista revolution.”

Send Delegates: The National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union opened its 116th annual convention this week in Beckley, W. Va., with an agenda quite a bit different from its heyday of hatchet-wielding attacks on saloons. The organization’s thrust these days is in the field of education, according to its president, Rachel Kelly of Portland, Me. “We believe in teaching children not to start drinking,” she said, adding that the 150,000 members also campaign against abortion, smoking and pornography. Nowadays, she said, “We do things quietly. We don’t march. We don’t shout. We don’t pound Bibles.” Or have happy hours.