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NBC is doing a mini-series on 9/11. The goal of the mini-series? Based on this excerpt from a NYT story: to humanize the monsters who attacked us. Link [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/20/movies/20atta.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5090&en=b64d01fc0e3fed52&ex=1271649600&

"A woman who was fired by Costco in 2001 for refusing to remove her eyebrow ring has accused the company of religious discrimination, saying she is a member of the Church of Body Modification." Link. [http://www.thetimesonline.com/articles/2005/04/20/updates/odds_and_ends/139e45b7391b527286256fe900543acf.

There's an international gay pride parade scheduled for this summer in Jerusalem. Last month, Jews, Muslims, Catholics and evangelical Christians put their disapproval of homosexual behavior above theological differences to condemn the parade. This week, a coalition of Jews have backed it. Three-fourths of Jerusalem's citizens

Look at the bright side: Some fiddler's gonna get a great deal on it at Slippery Pete's Pawn Shop. It'll be the best "Devil Went Down to Georgia" ever. > A local musician is issuing a desperate plea for the return of

Michigan's New York Times, the Detroit Free Press, ran an article recently about all those baby-enhancement videos. You know the kind: Baby Genius, Baby Einstein, Brainy Baby. Sales of these "kid-vids" hit $4.4 billion in 2004 and the pressure to buy them ("What? You

A letter from a non-Catholic to the WSJ. It's not terribly profound, but it's refreshing to see an outside observer use simple logic to put a fundamental truth in a different glass: > I am not Catholic, but it seems to me that if the pope

Don't give them any ideas. Next thing you know, they'll be driving the local morticians out of business, too. > Archaeologists have found what they believe are the 5,000-year-old remains of two American Indians at a southern Jefferson County site planned for development. > Bone

Despite all the optimistic hype, it would appear that left-wing talk radio isn't doing well after all. LINK. [http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-anderson18apr18,0,7147223.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions] Excerpt: > Wait a second, you say, didn't I read that Air America has expanded

Much of the junk out there about Benedict XVI comes from John Allen's bad book, Cardinal Ratzinger: The Vatican's Enforcer of the Faith. If you're looking for a polite but firm corrective, we recommend this piece by David Scott [http://www.davidscottwritings.com/inquisition.

This may sound ludicrous [http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7561229/], but there's a ring of truth to it, if you ask us: > PETA believes it may have a powerful new ally: the pope. > The star-studded animal rights group – whose high-profile spokespeople include Paul McCartney and Pamela