Saturday Morning News 3/20/10

The Pope: Take a letter, Maria. The Irish group One in Four deeply disappointed, yet not surprised by the Pope's Letter to Catholics in Ireland, regarding the systematic cover up of child sex abuse in that country. I was almost pleased with part of the letter that read:

"In particular, there was a well-intentioned but misguided tendency to avoid penal approaches to canonically irregular situations."

However, the context of that statement implies that the real problem was the rapid rate of secular change in society and a "misinterpretation" of Vatican II.

I'm going to have to side with those who are disappointed with the Pope.


I wish I had a Youtube clip for this. Viacom is suing Google's Youtube because unsealed court documents suggest that Google may have been aware that they were profiting off of pirated material. Oh, here's a Youtube clip for this:



So many nice things we could have picked up cheap... Greece may not be going out of business just yet. But stay tuned.

Aside to all you people out there who crave a heroic pet story. Looking for such a story on Google News, I typed in "Dog saves..." and got a drop down menu including such juicy options as, "Dog saves boy/missing girl/owner/little girl/boy from cougar attack..." on and on. I was offered a veritable cornucopia of heroic dogs from which I could choose. But I wanted a cat story, so I typed in "Cat saves..."

zilch

So I'm going to have to make something up:

Heroic cat saves owner from heart attack by napping, encouraging master to follow her example.

Afternoon News 3/19/10

(Image of St. Mary Axe & the Gherkin by David Iliff)

London's 24th annual Lesbian and Gay Film Festival opens tonight. Among the films presented is one about early 19th dyke, Anne Lister, who wrote her diary in secret code.

Study looks at the specifics of LGBTQ Boomers. Among other things, they retire later and worry more about being able to take care of themselves as they age, compared to the general population.

Scientists in Germany invent a real live invisibility cloak, but it is 4 trillionths of an inch wide.

18-year-old high school student Erica DeBenedictis from Albuquerque, NM wins $100,000 in Intel's 2010 science talent search. She designed a software navigation system that helps spacecraft travel more efficiently within the solar system.

National Marriage Organization Exhumes Corpse of Anita Bryant

Princeton NJ – In a bold new move designed to reinvigorate the fight for traditional marriage, the corpse of Anita Bryant was wheeled into the conference room of the Motel Six here this morning and propped up near a table of complimentary muffins. A spokesperson for the National Marriage Organization described the divorced former beauty queen’s remains as a “great addition to our army of the undead, fighting for family values in America’s heartland.”

Responding to accusations that the bankrupt, gay–bashing singer is not dead but currently residing in Edmond, Oklahoma, a NMO spokesman conceded that to live in Edmond, Oklahoma is “largely indistinguishable” from being dead and that the alleged corpse of Anita Bryant could only be described as an “Anita Bryant type.”