This one’s for John. On NPR the other morning, I caught the last piece of this report and it got me thinking. I’ve always said that “funerals are for the living” and so I really don’t find the practice of having funerals for pets all that weird. As one of the interviewees said, Their grief [...]

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Perhaps the only time you’ll see me advocating televangelism.  Check out this article in the WaPo on an extremely popular wave of young Muslim televangelists that are stealing the spotlight from angry old imams.  Quoth the article: A Muslim televangelist not much older than herself, in a stylish goatee and Western clothes, Masoud, 29, was [...]

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