It’s the end of another weekend, and in spite of my usual practice, it was actually a productive one, and I’m pretty happy about that. I’m just not that motivated (or organized) a person as a general rule, but now and then even I can actually get something done around here. Yesterday was one of the exceptions to the Rule of Saturday; normally, I spend the first few hours of the first morning of the weekend in bed, listening to NPR’s Saturday Edition, and then to Car Talk, and then to WWDTM. Possibly also to “Whaddya Know.” By then, it’s…
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A followup to the story of Captain MeLinda Morton, a Lutheran chaplain at the Air Force Academy; she had complained about excessive evangelical influence and an opressive religious atmosphere there. As she predicted, she’s “toast.” And she’s being redeployed to Okinawa, surely a comedown from being chief of the chaplain unit at the Academy: Air Force Removes Chaplain From Post>After several “reasonably tense” days among the academy chaplains, Morton said, she received an e-mail on May 4 from Whittington. It said a new executive officer would be named, effective immediately. Fox, the academy spokesman, said this change was made because…