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Take a look, if you have a mo’, at this gallery of pictures of New Gibellina, Sicily. The original Gibellina was destroyed by an earthquake in 1968, and then the new town was built a few miles away. Wikipedia: The new city was designed by many of the most prominent artists and architects in Italy, […] How can the Southern Baptist Convention still call itself a Christian organization? Bigoted idiots. The Southern Baptist Convention has broken its 127-year-old ties with a Fort Worth Baptist church because the SBC views its stand on homosexuality as too lenient, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and The Baptist Press report. This, among other reasons, is why […] In my early teens, I spent a lot of evenings with my parents, watching “Are You Being Served?“, a fantastic BBC sitcom from the 70s and 80s about the employees of a large London department store. It’s on youtube, I think, you should check it out. Either way, RIP Mrs. Slocombe. I was never a huge Michael Jackson fan, but I freely admit that he was probably the greatest pop entertainer ever. My fondest memory: going somewhere on vacation with my wife, I don’t remember where, and I don’t remember if this was before kids or if Charles might have even been with us, but we […] Harry Kalas has died at 73. http://is.gd/scmU RIP, Harry. Enjoy. (h/t Dan Levy) This is JD. She was our cat; she died sometime within the last few hours. She was about 7. She had been fighting acute kidney failure, and we had given her a big dose of fluids and medicine around 10pm before putting her to bed in our downstairs powder room. We got […] |