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Thursday, September 29, 2005
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A PRIEST PULLED: We really are in a new church. A priest who had differed from his own church's stance on a political matter - the Massachusetts state constitutional amendment to ban marriage rights for gays - was yanked from mass last Sunday, and replaced by a bishop who reprimanded him to his parishioners. Message: no political deviation allowed.
(Via Daily Dish.)
Steve: I don't know why Andrew Sullivan suggests that it's a new church. It sounds just like the old Catholic Church to me. I guess the real difference is these days they don't burn them. Maybe that's coming.
5:50:38 PM 
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I met a woman who showed me this box of M&M's the size of a pack of cigarettes and she said that this is what W. and Condoleeza gave her when her relative was killed in Iraq--after the family portrait they gave her these M&M's with the national seal on the front of the box and this happy flag-toting yellow dancing M&M on the back and this is what they gave her. At first I think she's out of her mind, but she's not. This is what they gave her. Like free gift with you cosmetics purchase only it's just M&M's and your son brother uncle sister daughter is dead and the yellow M&M is dancing on the box and this is what they gave her.
[Link; Photo one; two]
(Via Perpwalk.)
5:43:08 PM
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Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG) Meeting "Who should attend? Participation is open to all scientists/engineers involved in Mars exploration, including international colleagues. Since this is a 'working' meeting, it is not open to members of the press, however, if there is interest we can make people available for interviews afterwards."  Editor's earlier note: Once again NASA seeks to hide discussions about its Mars exploration program behind closed doors.
(Via NASA Watch.)
Steve: What could they possible be saying in there that they don't want us to know?
5:39:18 PM
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Science comes second as NASA makes lunar plans, Nature (subscription) "The current focus on hardware and site selection - engineering rather than science - worries some researchers. "My immediate reaction was: 'So what are they going to do on the Moon? Where's the beef?'" says Wesley Huntress, a former NASA science chief now with the Carnegie Institution of Washington."
(Via NASA Watch.)
5:36:23 PM
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Fascinating list. I'd imagine that the correlation between those who have cited these books and those who have read them is pretty weak. I also don't approve of the list compiler's misspelling of Finnegans Wake as "Finnegan's Wake." It should be a minor thing to get the titles right!
On the list, I've read items 1, 2, 3, 18, 23, and 39. Not very impressive.
5:35:17 PM
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