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Next time you're in need of a spiritual pick-me-up, maybe you should forego the traditional houses of worship and seek out the technophile's temple instead: the Apple Store. According to two academics at Texas A & M University, Apple products aren't just consumer-friendly, sexy gadgets, but instruments of the divine. "[Apple] could offer a religious-like experience. It could basically perform the same role in people's lives that being part of a religious community could, at one time," said Heidi Campbell, a communications professor who co-wrote an academic paper exploring the religious myths and metaphors surrounding the tech giant and its...

Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize, Cy Young AwardsOh hell no!! Obama wins Ms. California title!Obama wins HEISMAN TROPHYBreaking: NHL cancels season, awards Stanley Cup to Barack Obama (And other news)BREAKING: Obama Wins Dancing with the Stars Trophy - Rest of Season Cancelled BREAKING! obama wins "American Idol"Barack Obama Wins Indianapolis 500!BREAKING: Obama Wins All Events at 2012 Olympics!Obama Named Miss Hooters 2010Barack Obama inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!!! Barack Obama becomes New Santa ClauseBarack obama Wins KENTUCKY DERBY !!!!!BREAKING: BARACK OBAMA WINS IDITAROD!!!!Breaking: Obama named Time's Man of the Year for the last 20 and the next...

MP3 After this recording, she made it down about 40 stories and said in a call she was with members of the FDNY. She has not been heard from since.

By John Stevenson : The Herald-Sunjstevenson@heraldsun.com Jun 15, 2006 : 12:23 am ET DURHAM -- Although a few observers are willing to give District Attorney Mike Nifong the benefit of the doubt, recent defense claims in the Duke University lacrosse rape case have many lawyers and professors once again predicting doom for the prosecution. Mark Godsey, a former New York City prosecutor who now teaches law at the University of Cincinnati, put it this way on Wednesday: "These events are more bad news for the prosecution, but we still don't know what evidence they have. Nevertheless, as we learn...

Don't complain to me - I'm a metrosexual.

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(KINGSTON) TWO PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED LAST NIGHT AT THE RAMADA INN ON ROUTE 28 OUTSIDE KINGSTON BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY. OFFICIALS WOULD NOT GIVE ANY SPECIFICS ON THE CASE, OR THE NAMES OF THOSE ARRESTED. AUTHORITIES DID SAY A LARGE QUANITY OF CASH WAS RECOVERED AT THE MOTEL. THE INVESTIGATION IS CONTINUING BY THE IMMIGRATION CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT UNIT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY.

<p>The Atkins Diet and other weight-loss plans that limit carbohydrates can turn you into a sourpuss, a new study shows.</p> <p>Scientists found carbohydrates help boost the production of serotonin which controls emotions and a shortage can lead to mood swings and depression.</p>

I've been hiding under my bed with my shotgun since last evening. Is it safe to crawl out yet? Will Chris Shays apologize? Do y'all know how hard it is to type a vanity when one is ensconced under one's bed?

An eagle-eyed reader draws our attention to the June 29, 1988 New York Times, where the then-Lieutenant Governor of Vermont writes to the editor about a Times story on large damages awards in a libel case. To the Editor: Randall Bezanson and Gilbert Cranberg detailed a situation that I hope will get far worse. As a physician, I have been frustrated for years by the reluctance of state legislatures and the United States Congress to deal with liability problems of all kinds.I have long maintained that until the legal profession and the news media are also afflicted with the increasingly...

The Twelve Days of ChristmasCopyright 1997 by Gretchen Passantino. Many people know the opening lyrics to "The Twelve Days of Christmas." But few know that behind the somewhat silly counting song is essential Christian doctrine. The song was composed by Catholics in England during the 16th century, who were forbidden by law to practice their Catholic faith. The only legal church in England was the state church. To teach their children basic doctrine, they used nonsense songs that would not raise the suspicions of the non-Catholics around them, but would remind the children of their faith. The explanation of the...

1. Descendit de caelis Salvator mundi. Gaudeamus!The Saviour of the world has come down from heaven. Let us rejoice!This proclamation, filled with deep rejoicing,echoed in the night of Bethlehem.Today the Church renews it with unchanged joy:the Saviour is born for us!A wave of tenderness and hope fills our hearts,together with an overpowering need for closeness and peace.In the crib we contemplate the Onewho stripped himself of divine gloryin order to become poor, driven by love for mankind.Beside the crib the Christmas tree,with its twinkling lights,reminds us that with the birth of Jesusthe tree of life has blossomed anew in the...

CAIRO, December 15 (IslamOnline.net) – Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsy Clarke expressed readiness Sunday, December 14, to act as defense lawyer for ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, with western analysts suspecting the captured leader would be given fair trial. "Certainly, why not. I am ready to act in his defense," Clarke told IslamOnline.net shortly after the U.S. confirmed the detention of Saddam near Tikrit. Clarke, currently in Cairo to attend a two-day international anti-occupation conference, stressed that Saddam – however brutal – should be give a "fair, objective and impartial trial". "Saddam must be domestically prosecuted first and - if...

I haven't started a thread in about two years.

CUMMULATIVE WORDS SPOKEN BY O'REILLY AND SULLUM DURING THE INTERVIEW. THE INTERVIEW WAS ABOUT TWO-THIRDS OVER BEFORE SULLUM GOT THE EDGE In the first mathematical analysis of Bill O'Reilly ever done, the Review has incontrovertibly proved what was previously believed only anecdotally: O'Reilly is a bully and a jerk. The study examined O'Reilly's interview [sic] with Jacob Sullum who has written an important new book on drugs, "Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use." Using the advanced technology of Microsoft's Word Count, the Review determined that Sullum only got in 35 more words than the interviewer, O'Reilly. O'Reilly got in...

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Glorious - but I think the 4000 Ks are a bigger deal.

What is it with neocon women? They'll find any opportunity to bash the upper west side. In last Friday's Wall Street Journal, former Dan Quayle speech-writer and charter member of the rightwing, antifeminist Independent Women's Forum Lisa Schiffren shared her sex fantasies: "I had the most astonishing thought last Thursday. After a long day of hauling the kids to playdates and ballet, I turned on the news. And there was the president, landing on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, stepping out of a fighter jet in that amazing uniform, looking--how to put it?--really hot. Also, presidential, of...

"I'd like to see them string [Scott Peterson] up," Morris County, New Jersey, NOW President Mavra Stark told her county's local paper, "any way they can." A lot of people are feeling that kind of anger following the sad and macabre news that the bodies of Laci Peterson and her infant son (apparently unborn until after her death) had washed up miles from where her husband Scott had taken a fishing trip on the day she "disappeared." That Peterson was 30 miles from the Mexican border with $10,000, bleached hair, and a new goatee when police arrested him Friday...