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The Vatican today made the attempted ordination of women one of the gravest crimes under church law, putting it in the same category as clerical sex abuse of minors. Seriously? How is allowing women to answer the divine call to become priests as sinful as molesting a child? I have no idea what Biblical reasoning […]

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A year ago today, an innocent woman was shot and killed. Within hours the whole world saw the video of her bleeding out on the streets of Iran. Her name was Neda Agha-Soltan and she became a symbol of the human cost to the protests against the oppressive and violent Iranian regime that clearly rigged […]

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I am saddened to hear that Gary Coleman died today at age 42. I know he had a troubled adulthood, but his childhood years as an entertainer were influential. So much so my daughter says Arnold Jackson’s famous catch phrase “What’chya talkin’ about, Willis?”, even though she was born over 20 years after Diff’rent Strokes […]

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NPR was talking about this blog post where the writer shows how much he would have profited if he had bought Apple stock instead of their products over the years, it’s brilliant. However, the whole time I was listening to the story I was kicking myself knowing that I had been buying Microsoft stock all […]

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Is Kentucky Senator Jim Bunning the only sane person left in Washington? The Hall of Fame pitcher turned Senator held up a $10 billion spending bill all by himself for 5 days and drew the ire of both Democrats and Republicans, not to mention most of the Media. But why? Sure it was a popular […]

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According to scientists at NASA the 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Chile on Feb. 27 was so powerful it may have tipped Earth’s axis and shortened the length of a day. The quake, the seventh strongest earthquake in recorded history, appears to have shortened the length of an Earth day by 1.26 milliseconds, according to research […]

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Sure, he had to apologize to try to save millions that are still at stake for his reputation. But to me, that was the best celebrity apology I have ever seen, because he owned his failures 100%. He did not make excuses or place any blame elsewhere, he admitted his own foolishness and irresponsibility. He […]

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Charlie Sheen: “It was nice to have police come to my house and for once I didn’t have to leave with them,” after someone stole his car and it plunged off a cliff. For as much shitty stuff this guy has done, at least he can laugh at himself. Read more here

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