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I read about this yesterday on the No God Blog.  It has now been reported by the “major media” that amid complaints that Marines were handing out coins promoting Christianity, at least one service member has been removed from duty in Iraq: 
Sunni officials in the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah said the coins were given [...]

Pretty funny top 10 list from PopSci.com (located at MSNBC.com).  My favorites would probably be: “Garbologist: Think Indiana Jones–in a dumpster” and “Hazmat diver: They swim in sewage.  Enough said.“

New York governor David Paterson has instructed state agencies to immediately change policies and regulations to recognize gay marriages legally performed outside the state of New York. This comes mere hours after California issued a directive Wednesday authorizing the issuance of marriage licenses to gay couples beginning on June 17th.
My prediction (which only expands on [...]

Microsoft CEO Steve “Monkeyboy” Ballmer unveiled a touch-screen Windows Tuesday at The Wall Street Journal’s “D: All Things Digital” conference. The touch-screen feature will be part of Windows 7 slated for release in late 2009, but realistically expected by 2014…

I missed this last week, but really, who cares?  Expelled is old news anyway.  But, I guess Yoko means business…  It is interesting that the producers of the movie took the necessary steps to license all the other music in the film, except for John Lennon’s Imagine.
[via Pharyngula]

As always, he brings a unique perspective. Christopher Hitchens writing in Slate: Wine Drinkers of the World, Unite: You Have Nothing to Lose But Inflated Bills and Interrupted Anecdotes:
The other night, I was having dinner with some friends in a fairly decent restaurant and was at the very peak of my form as a [...]

An American climber, David Hahn, 46, of Taos, New Mexico, has scaled Mount Everest for the 10th time, becoming the first non-Nepalese to achieve that feat.
Jesus! How bad a case of small penis syndrome does this guy have? Buy a fucking Porsche and start dating your daughter’s friends already!

GameStop has decided to stop selling the Microsoft Zune:
The large retailer of all things gaming “may have originally elected to carry Zune with the expectation that it would become more gaming-focused over time, and that really hasn’t happened,” said Susan Kevorkian, portable media player analyst for IDC Research.
“Zune comes out of the same group at [...]

Whew!  Home again.  I guess my hiatus is over.  Weekends and vacations are never long enough, unless they are too long, and too long is much worse.
FWIW, my family and I spent 5 days in the mountains on a very well-deserved mini-vacation.  Nothing like unplugging for a few days to recharge your batteries.  No internet, [...]

A South Carolina high school principal says he’ll resign after the school district approved an organization for gay students.
I suppose there’s something to be said for someone willing to put his money where his mouth is, no?  I mean, we may not agree with this guy’s beliefs, but there’s something to be said for him [...]