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The McDades at the Abbey Pub: 22APR08

April 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Music... Shall All Your Cares Beguile, The Never-Ending Bloga

Wow. I still can’t believe that I had a chance to see the McDades at the Abbey Pub, a well known Chicago institution. And that my husband David and I got to see them gratis, a fact that makes me absurdly grateful and humble. Hell, this blogging gig is pretty cool if people contact you [...]

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Our ++Katharine Gets Good Press

April 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Blogs Wot I Read, Episcopal, Mini-Posts, Only in Utah...

The Lead notes that Presiding Bishop Katharine has been getting a lot of press lately; just about every where she goes, she gets local ink. Even in Utah.

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Mythbusting Brazilian Priest Feared Lost

April 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Hot Off The Presses, Religion

Hopes of finding ballooning Brazilian priest fade - Yahoo! News This is sad - a priest pulling a “Mythbusters-like” stunt with hundreds of helium balloons is feared lost at sea.

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Zimbabwe: Lloyd’s MIU - 20017525399 Over The Horizon

April 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Blogs Wot I Read, Hot Off The Presses, Politics, Schmolitics

The An Yue Jiang may have been turned around and headed back to China, as reported by the Beeb and the NYT, but maybe they’re just headed out to sea to do a little “over-the-horizon” transfer work. Sokwanele/This is Zimbabwe says “Don’t celebrate just yet:”
Lloyd’s MIU - 20017525399
But the following is invaluable information for [...]

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Of Course I Had To Comment

April 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Notty Problems: Even Leaving Doesn't Solve Them, Only in Utah..., Tribe: Phaeomelanii

I had to comment on the Salt Lake Trib’s forums on the following column:
Guy: Overcoming the bigotry inside myself
Two teenagers, a 16-year-old female and an 18-year-old male, vandalized a local church, causing $1 million in damage. They broke in and ran amok, destroying things with a baseball bat, spray-painting epithets and sacrilegious symbols on the [...]

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