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reli­gion

Home Grown Ideological Terrorism Makes a Martyr Out Of Dr. George Tiller

Dr. George Tiller was Shot to Death today. Tiller, a Kan­sas phy­si­cian, per­for­med late term abor­tions, one of the few phy­si­cian in the country to do so. He was found not guilty in March in a poli­ti­cally moti­va­ted trial where he was char­ged with 19 mis­de­mea­nors stem­ming from pro­ce­du­res he per­for­med, and in another

Wednesday Wonderings, WTF’s and Sound Bites.

The Church of Scien­to­logy is on trial in France, accu­sed of “tar­ge­ting vul­ne­ra­ble peo­ple for com­mer­cial gain”. I’m not an expert on Scien­to­logy, know little of it except that Greta Van Sus­te­ren  —  FOX news semi talking-head for­merly of CNN  —  is one, as is her hus­band John Coale, a high ran­king Scien­tio­lo­gist and trial law­yer, was appoin­ted by

To Soporific Feasts and Good Gin

Run­ning for the Congo Women early in the mor­ning, spen­ding the rest of the day clea­ning. The nocuous living con­di­tions here must end. The place has fallen to ruin, unde­te­rred by the Eas­ter break I’ve been on since Thurs­day. I haven’t done a thing around here, and sur­pri­singly neither have my temp hou­se­ma­tes. What’s up

They’d Like To Teach The World To Sing In Perfect Harmony

I’d like to build the world a home
And fur­nish it with love
Grow apple trees and honey bees and snow-white turtle doves
While you were lamen­ting your shrin­king invest­ment port­fo­lio, dis­cus­sing whether Adam (Ame­ri­can Idol) looks bet­ter with or without eye liner and fin­ger­nail polish, and worr­ying about Obama’s ove­rex­po­sure on natio­nal tele­vi­sion, the Uni­ted Nations was