Tokyo zoo gorillas get good luck bean shower – Yahoo! News Hey, I got showered with soya beans last weekend too – I sure hope this means I won't become a Japanese baby-making machine. Worse yet, a baby-gorilla-making machine.
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Episcopalians open reclaimed Attleboro church – The Boston Globe (tags: Episcopalian) Challenge for the Church | Dt Leaders | Opinion | Telegraph (tags: Anglican)
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The Houses of Worship That Hallow New York by David Garrard Lowe, City Journal Winter 2007 (tags: New York Church Episcopal Episcopalian) Danger! High Postage (tags: Bergerac)
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Drain cleaning company Roto-Rooter is giving away this ridiculous “pimped-out” toilet as part of a promotional sweepstakes. The winner will be announced on April 25, National Plumber’s Day. The irony is that the toilet itself seems pretty standard. They should have gone for one of those self-cleaning Japanese models with the bidet and sound effects generator. That’s got to be a mockup. I agree that a high-end Toto Japanese toilet is the Cadillac of thrones. Via Boing Boing: Luxury crapper contest
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Yesterday a large group from St Nicholas with the Holy Innocents (man, we really need a snappy nickname) visited the nearby Buddhist temple to attend their Setsubun celebration and participate in the morning chanting. I got there late, as I had a severe miscommunication between my brain and my GPS unit – problem existed between driver’s seat and Magellan. It was a bitterly cold, windy day, and when I finally got to the temple, trying to stop kicking myself for my inability to enter the address correctly, I was about 15 minutes late and had missed any explanation. The temple…
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The state has dropped in "clout" to 47th overall, according to Roll Call, putting a most amusing twist on Orrin Hatch's "Clout" billboards last November. Salt Lake Tribune – Utah's voice a whimper in noisy Congress' halls
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What do you get if you mix 2 apparently disparate interests? Such as, say, Toyota RAV4s, and Renaissance Faire-type re-enactor silliness? You get Rav4 Jousting. I own a RAV. I own Ren Faire garb. Luckily, I don't have a moonroof, so I won't be going on the jousting circut anytime soon.
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Little to show for U.S. billions spent on Iraq reconstruction – baltimoresun.com (tags: Oversight Corruption Iraq) McClatchy Washington Bureau | 02/02/2007 | Justifications for attacking Iran on shaky ground (tags: Iran) Church To Defy NFL, Show Super Bowl With Projector – Sports (tags: Football Church)
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This is just a quick selection of articles about a topic that's currently dear to my heart: Congressional oversight. Unfortunately, a lot of shit is going to come to light, but unless there's a sexy-money scandal to get people lathered up over it, nothing will really change for the next couple of years. FT.com / World / US & Canada – Bush ‘distorted’ climate change reports The Bush administration has routinely suppressed or distorted communication of climate change science to the public, a climate specialist at Nasa’s Goddard Institute said on Tuesday. The accusation, before the chief oversight committee…
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Bush's Four Anti-Terror Successes All Fictional | Let's Try Democracy Keith Olbermann recently cited these 4 statements lacking in truthiness. They're all vaguely familiar when you run down the background, and pumped up like a water-injected hotdog to look impressively beefy and unadulterated.