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Daily Archives: May 5, 2009
I.F. Stone, Kindle Mania, Joe the Plumber, Dollar Tattoo Art, and a French Poet Who Dreamed of Blogging: Today’s Five Curious Links
Commentary claims journalist I.F. Stone was a spy for Stalin from 1936-1938 . . . more The New York Times says big screen e-readers, such as the new larger version of the Kindle, might save the publishing industry, and transform the … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Christianity, Christianity Today, college, feminism, gay marriage, I.F. Stone, joe the plumber, kindle, newspapers, poetry, stalin
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Scandal? When American Evangelical Christians Distribute the New Testament to Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan, are They Doing Something Wrong?
The following video clip from Al Jazeera is being touted as damning evidence that Evangelicals are abusing their positions, and violating their military missions, distributing copies of the New Testament to Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan: I’m an agnostic, but … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, atheist, Bible, Christian, evangelicals, free speech, Islam, Jesus, military, Muslim, New Testament, religion
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Rare Footage of Susan Boyle Singing “The Way We Were” (in 1984)
She was 22 years old:
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Today’s Question: Where Did Waterboarding Come From?
I’ve been reading Jonathan Kirsch’s history of the the Inquisition, titled The Grand Inquisitor’s Manuel: A History of Terror in the Name of God (Harper-Collins 2008), and waterboarding is a gift to George Bush (and the Gestapo and Stalin’s Secret … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholic Church, Catholicism, George Bush, gestapo, Jesus, Jonathan Kirsch, rush limbaugh, stalin, terrorism, the Inquisition, torture, waterboarding
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Prometheus Unbound 