Spirit covered the streets of San Francisco today on Market Street in San Francisco’s annual Gay Pride Parade. There were drag queens, kids, politicians, police officers, shirtless men and dozens of happy married couples everywhere. Such success for this year’s parade could be because of California’s court ruling allowing gay marriages recently. Thousands turned out [...]

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This is a curious story and one that has received little attention in America. It concerns a young Australian woman Schapelle Corby, who right now is cooling her heels in Kerobokan Prison in Bali, Malaysia. In 2004 Schapelle Corby flew to Bali on vacation, she was planning to spend her time with her sister Mercedes [...]

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As I noted in a recent review of another title in this series, the last thing I want to do when I come home from teaching and working with kids all day is to stand in the kitchen and work on making dinner. I primarily work with special needs students which are often physically demanding [...]

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After jumping a fence that clearly had warnings signs of danger posted all over, a 17 year old South Carolina teenager was decapitated around 2 pm Saturday when the ride struck him at Six Flags Over Georgia. There were signs everywhere stating the area was a restricted area but he and his friend ignored the [...]

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If by some stretch of the imagination you’re unaware of the new film WALL·E, let me give you a brief breakdown (in director Andrew Stanton’s own words): “It involves science fiction and the musical, Hello, Dolly!” Okay, so there’s much more to it than that, but that sums it up pretty nicely.  The film is about [...]

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To some a legal marriage is only a piece of paper that ties a couple together with a legal bind. Personally I like the idea of being married but then again I have nothing to lose financially. A marriage in the celebrity world would no doubt become a disaster in the event of a divorce [...]

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The much touted iPhone is finally crossing the boarder to Canada. But unlike its unveiling in the US where outlets could not keep the shelves stocked fast enough to meet demand. The Canadian response is one of shock, disbelief and anger. Apple have entered into an exclusivity deal with media giant Rogers. And whenever you [...]

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While it comes as no surprise, it is saddening that Mugabe have pulled off what has to be the biggest and most blatant abuse of power in recent years. Alas parts of Africa are not well known for their democratic process, but even by African standards this one is outrageous. By mass intimidation he managed [...]

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This is the best article yet that I’ve read on the problem of child prostitution on craigslist. I’m not going to quote the meat of the article because this is one of those articles that needs to be read in its entirety. However I will quote a part where craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster thinks he’s [...]

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From stepping onto the runways of Milan to stepping off the balcony of her Manhattan Financial District apartment, European model, Ruslana Korshunova, 20, fell to her death and died around 2:30 on Saturday. Korshunova, originally from the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan, received her big break when modeling booker, Debbie Jones, saw her picture in [...]

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Hiding out in Puerto Lagarto as the novel opens, our hero Joe Dunne begins a detailed confession to a traveling American priest. He has been hiding out for two years with no one to talk to and clearly is a bit lonely. Besides that, he has been watching the American in a clerical collar chasing [...]

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Deven Trabosh, of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, has spent the last eight years searching for Mr. Right. He hasn’t shown up in any of the night clubs that Trabosh has visited, nor has he appeared on the online dating websites that she has signed up for. When Trabosh decided to sell her beloved 2,200 square [...]

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Saint Peter and Saint Paul icon written by Susan Kelly vonMedicus. Icon in the private collection of Archbishop Raymond Burke, formerly Archbishop of Saint Louis, currently Dean of the Apostolic Signatura, Rome.Image used with the gracious permission of the artist. Today we celebrate the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul. Throughout the Universal Church, we [...]

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After recently reviewing “Williams-Sonoma Food Made Fast: Grilling” primarily for my newspaper column in Senior News and later elsewhere because I liked the book so much, I decided to see what my library had to offer in the series. While I am primarily a meat and potatoes kind of guy, I like to cook and [...]

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The Washington Post has a long article about a so called email that is causing Americans to think Obama is Muslim. The jist of the article is that it is a nasty email that is doing all the harm, something that I question. The most amazing sentence in this WaPo expose is this one: The [...]

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