Banging altar boys, on the other hand, is something the Church can probably live with:
NEW FRANKEN, Wis. — A Catholic priest has removed his church’s organist and choir director from her duties saying her sale of sex toys was not “consistent with Church teachings.”
Linette Servais, 50, played the organ and sung with the choir for […]

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A Gallup poll politicians and pundits will surely ignore. Or something.

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“Boz Scaggs,” Boz Scaggs, Atlantic Records, 1969. Trivia: Jann Wenner was a co-producer. I haven’t listened to this entire album in eight years or so, because it’s been that long since I’ve had a functional turntable. But I found a $2 CD version and oh, what a great collection it is.
Besides Boz’s gravelly voice (oo, […]

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But he may one day play one on TV. Go read Lance Mannion on Fred Thompson. Here’s one tasty tidbit:
The Howard Finemans of the world have managed to separate cause from effect in their thinking about politics and in the process have learned to ignore effect entirely, so entirely that a President’s actual Presidency is […]

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Shirley Ellis:

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Hillary. Who knew such a thing?

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Georgie Anne Geyer in the Dallas Morning News with some maybe not so good news that ought to be the topic of the national media:
But by all reports, President Bush is more convinced than ever of his righteousness.
Friends of his from Texas were shocked recently to find him nearly wild-eyed, thumping himself on the chest […]

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I just loved this Mother’s Day post from Julia (who should probably be the Queen of Queens).

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And a high-level Bush official says something both true and inspiring. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates addressed the graduating class of the Air Force Academy, and the entire speech is a stirring one.

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Thoughtful piece in the Columbia Journalism Review on press coverage of Al Gore. Go read it all:
Another example of the political press’s collective personal disdain for Gore came during the Democratic debate at Dartmouth College in 1999, where, as Time magazine pointed out, “The 300 media types watching in the press room at Dartmouth were, […]

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I guess it all depends on what you mean by free.

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Duncan on why we’re in Iraq.
If I could just add a little something to this truly awesome summation, it would be this.
The one thing these players do all have in common is that they appear to be, for lack of a better word, brats.
They have a very low tolerance for frustration of any kind. They […]

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One of the jobs I applied for was as a copy editor at a large law firm. Well, the HR contact from that firm was reading my site this morning - which, of course, is always the risk I take. Especially considering that I’m asking for donations, and all. But one must prioritize, and keeping […]

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Well, kids, we’ll be hitting the two million visitor mark sometime tomorrow. Be sure to check back - there’ll be balloons! Party hats! Cake!
And if you’re another blogger who wants to help hurry things along, please link.

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Feeling Safer Yet, Part 2:
The same industrial chemical that led to a massive pet food recall was used in animal feed ingredients made by a U.S. company, health officials said Wednesday.
The announcement by the Food and Drug Administration was the first indication that a U.S. company had used melamine as an animal feed ingredient. Agency […]

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Damn those wild pandas! Damn them!

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But somewhat entertaining. A doctor being sued for malpractice wrote all about it - on his theoretically anonymous blog. You can probably guess the rest.

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Our friends at the FDA battle it out.

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Barbara Ehrenreich, author of “Nickle and Dimed”:
Recent findings shed new light on the increasingly unequal terrain of American society. The new “top” involves pay in the hundreds of millions, a private jet and a few acres of Nantucket. The new bottom is slavery.
No, really. She’s being literal.

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As someone who worked as an admissions rep for a trade school, I can tell you the financial aid ripoff is pervasive in the education industry:
A former financial aid director at Johns Hopkins University who cultivated a national reputation as a stickler for ethics accepted more than $130,000 from eight lending industry companies during […]

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Will notes that there are so many casualties in Iraq, one Army post has announced it will start holding group memorials every month instead of individual ceremonies.

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It just shouldn’t be allowed to happen:
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A 44-year-old woman who needed an electric oxygen pump to breathe died after an energy company cut the power to her home because of a $122 unpaid bill, her family claimed Wednesday.
Police said they had launched an investigation into Folole Muliaga’s death, which happened […]

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In honor of tonight’s blue moon, Van Morrison with the song:

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The second song I learned to play on the guitar. I remember seeing Bobbie Gentry perform this:

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“In our system, there really is no intermediate step between a final Supreme Court decision and violent revolution.” - Al Gore

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