Utter stupidity…
An American soldier used a Quran, the Islamic holy book, for target practice in a predominantly Sunni area west of Baghdad, prompting an apology from the U.S. military, a spokesman said Sunday.
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Iraqi police found the bullet-riddled Quran with graffiti inside the cover on a small-arms range near a police station in Radwaniyah, a former [...]

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Little light on posting here, of late, and if you came here looking for it I’m sorry to disappoint.
I’m kind of burned out, what with all the reading and writing I’ve been doing. Columns and blog posts for Inside Catholic, two short sci-fi stories finished up in the past week (one submitted to Analog for possible [...]

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According to the release:
NASA has scheduled a media teleconference Wednesday, May 14, at 1 p.m. EDT, to announce the discovery of an object in our Galaxy astronomers have been hunting for more than 50 years. This finding was made by combining data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory with ground-based observations.
My guess? Jimmy Hoffa.
Sure, he only [...]

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(Update2: NO REALLY, IT’S FIXED THIS TIME!! In case it doesn’t work, go here.)
(Update: Link is fixed.)
Yes, this is the heady topic you can find me waxing poetic about at Inside Catholic this morning:
As a comic book fan, what I have never detected in Iron Man, or Spiderman, or the Fantastic Four, is a specifically [...]

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The weird picture really puts the nail in this coffin:

One of the central works in the exhibition “Design and the Elastic Mind” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (until 12 May), Victimless Leather, a small jacket made up of embryonic stem cells taken from mice, has died. The artists, Oron Catts and [...]

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The troubles in the commodities market is having an effect that makes dealing with the troubles in the commodities market that much harder.
There’s a worldwide shortage of hops:
The shortage — caused by a dwindling number of hop growers worldwide, and exacerbated by a Yakima, Washington, warehouse fire — has forced Gortemiller to use fewer and different [...]

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There were two things I learned for certain on the French Riviera: women’s bathing suit tops were entirely optional, with no distinctions made for the delight or disgust of bystanders; and secondly, no man is ever too old for a speedo.
In Florida, which also has its share of places which adhere to the former rule, the latter is [...]

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I complain regularly about the Chinese government, but I have a deep appreciation and respect for the Chinese people. They’ve put up with a hell of a lot since Mao came to power, and will continue to do so as long as Communists run the country.
Today, they’re having to deal with a more powerful force [...]

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This impersonation is SPOT-on.

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