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Religious wrong
Christianity Today exposes the fear-mongering, truth-twisting partisan haters of the Religious Right wrong yet again: “Is the Stimulus Act Anti-Religious?“
Your body is a billboard
Would you shave your head and wear a temporary tattoo in exchange for a plane ticket to New Zealand? Tempting isn’t it? New York Times – “The Body as Billboard: Your Ad Here“
Did McGwire get it right after all?
Joe Posnanski thinks so: And looking back you have to wonder if McGwire is the one guy in this whole absurd steroid mess who actually got it, the one guy who has come out of this thing with his dignity reasonably intact. McGwire refused to lie to make himself look better. He refused to turn […]
Inside the scoop factory
The New Republic has an intriguing behind-the-scenes piece on Politico, the caffeinated Beltway newspaper that outpaced the Washington Post during the 2008 presidential campaign by taking the lead on stories about John McCain not knowing how many houses he owned, Barack Obama hanging out with Weather Underground founder Bill Ayers and Sarah Palin’s high-priced wardrobe.
Alien life right here, right now
The search for alien life might not require a rocket ship, after all: BBC News – “Alien life may ‘exist among us’”
Moreyball
Moneyball author Michael Lewis had a piece in the New York Times Magazine over the weekend that’s capturing a lot of attention. Entitled, perhaps inaccurately, “The No-Stats All-Star,” the piece takes a look at the impact not always apparent in a box score that players like Shane Battier can have on an NBA game. Money […]
Who’s drinking the Kool-Aid?
No, this story about an Ohio mom protesting a Protestant church her 18-year-old apostate son attends, is not from The Onion.
The Michael Phelps bong hit war continues
It keeps getting more ridiculous: Three people were charged with simple marijuana possession after a small amount was seized in the raid at the home in a lakefront neighborhood. Four others were charged with simple marijuana possession in the second raid, longtime Columbia attorneys Dick Harpootlian and Joe McCulloch told The State on Thursday. “He’s […]