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The Mormon Church has a practice called Baptism of the Dead.  You can read about what it means within that church’s catechism here.  The Vatican has ordered that parishes refuse to participate in any ostensible genealogical research by Mormon affiliated groups, and may go as far as sealing all parish genealogical records.   Holocaust survivors are also demanding that the [...]

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I’ve always considered myself a fairly moderate to liberal person, politically.  However, maybe I just don’t know what liberal means, like Elena Kagan doesn’t know what progressive means.  I was consequently shocked to see, quite a while ago, gay protestors using the same techniques to limit conveyance of views in a public assembly as those [...]

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Okay, so, um, maybe it’d been a while since I’d been to McDonald’s.  But, I noted that they have wonderfully attuned, illustrative packaging now for their burgers and fries.  Here’s a great fast food blog post about it: link.

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Yeah, I realize it’s a bit British to add the ‘u’, but this is the Tea Party we’re talking about here.  In any case, NPR national has a fascinating biomorphic comparison based upon undersea life to describe how the Tea Party, and, verging on the ironic, Apache tribes have organizational characteristics akin to starfish.  Here’s [...]

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So, there’s a detail about the Irish priest abuse scandals that is compelling me to post something.  The NY Times reports that children were forced to sign oaths to not disclose what happened.  This is straight-up Columbia House, Scientological nonsense.  Did they bring in special attorneys who could tell the children what they were supposedly [...]

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The editors of The Vigilant Citizen finally get the recognition they deserve for the absolutely delightful breakdown of Lady GaGa’s videographic imagery.  The Atlantic picked it up (yes, this has been an Atlantic heavy day) and toasted it as a favorite screed.  The Vigilants have been working on their theories about Lady GaGa’s video imagery since [...]

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Google has apparently ended its censorship of its China portal, google.cn, despite an order from China just hours ago.  MSNBC reports that the famous Tank Man photo is now available through that portal.

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