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The Mormons Underwrote a Lot of Non-Money Contributions and Didn’t Report Them

It turns out that the Church of Jesus Christ Latter Days Saints (the Mormons) didn’t just walk the line separating church and state by advocating that all of their members volunteer time and donate cash to Proposition 8 and the slime campaign against marriage equality.
I wrote earlier about the movement to report the Mormons to [...]

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Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA): Legal Resources and Information

In my travels and surfing I found this site.
Warning:  it seems pretty biased from first glance as I type this in the San Jose airport.  (For instance, on the front page it has a statistic of Muslims who voted for Obama — as if that were relevant to this issue except if one is homophobic [...]

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Fire shuts Channel Tunnel Traffic

I’ve been passed out in an undisclosed location in London, UK and noticed this on the BBC.
I’d been toying with taking the chunnel to Paris to see a few friends in Paris and also, truthfully, have a great crepe or two.
When I lived in London during the Gulf War, many Brits would comment at the [...]

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Quotable Spam from the Spam Museum

Image via Flickr by Thalling55
I received a bunch of comments that made it past Akismet.
They didn’t relate at all to the posts they were comments upon… they were from a spammer.
They’re all quotes. Great ones, even. Nevertheless, they’re spam. I went to the Creative Commons area of Flickr — my favorite [...]

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Scorpions On a Plane

No! It’s not a sequel!
 
It’s just an odd case of reality imitating art B movies.

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