I am back from the land of fried food, pastoral beauty, and 700 Club bumper stickers. No, not a joke... Saw this one with my very own homosexual eyes outside the drugstore while buying herbal anti-crazies and eyeliner.


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First of all, thank you to the fabulous chreebomb for exposing me to what certainly must become birthday presents for chestertodd and K.


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I wanted to resist liking any of the Village Voice's, um, bloggers-under-contract. But when Eugene Mirman posted about the Christian fundamentalist phone company who got his name off an old Alan Keyes donation prank, I got curious. And then I found he'd posted an MP3 of his conversation with their telemarketer ( Read more... )

"...than for a rich man to enter the gates of heaven." (Matthew 19: 23-26)

Stolen from penpusher who got it from onceupon: ebonypearl on the ground in the hurricane region, asking the media to stop criminalizing, stop blaming those left in NOLA for their poverty and try documenting the many acts of altruism going on there.

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( Guess who's coming to Gay Pride? )

Currently, Wrestlemania is (performing?) occurring in the town in which my brother teaches. A man named Hassan was just stepping on the head of a French-Canadian named Benoit, after delivering an impassioned speech about anti-Arab prejudice. Is it just me, or is Wrestlemania an unlikely forum for healing and understanding? Maybe it's the placards ( Read more... )

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Lion Attacks Man Who Jumped Into Enclosure

By Associated Press
Published November 4, 2004, 10:29 AM CST

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- A lion attacked a man who jumped into the animal's enclosure and shouted "Jesus will save you!" at the big cat Wednesday at the zoo in Taiwan's capital.

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Did your mom tell you about the marquee we saw on a storefront church at 159th St. and kedzie?

PRAY FOR MEN IN AUTHORITY EVERYWHERE
PRAY! PRAY!