Alice Cooper, The Feelies, Barack Obama, John Mccain, quantum of solace, john keats, dark knight, Mark Mittelberg, Kansas City Barbecue / 07.03.08
• Alice Cooper's sideline as a Bible teacher: "I go to Bible study on Wednesday mornings - I even teach sometimes - but I'll still get up on stage and be much scarier than Marilyn Manson."
And he has no problem balancing his religion with his career path - because he doesn't swear.
He adds, "It doesn't mean that, as a Christian, you can't be a rocker or an entertainer. It's your lifestyle. I never use bad language. That's not gentlemanly. Alice might slit your throat but he'd never use the F word." (Contact Music)
• Reborn for the Fourth of July: The Feelies (NY Times)
• The founding of fireworks: The myths, realities and oddities of America's famous day. (Wall Street Journal)
• Mindy Kaling officiating first ever “Office Games” in Scranton: join the beet eating contest
• Alice Cooper spins more 'Spider' tour dates (Live Daily)
• Obama promises faith-based initiative (Swampland)
• Obama proposes expanding faith-based program (Washington Post)
• Obama wants to expand role of religious groups (NY Times)
• Obama is not a secularist (The Atlantic)
• Taking it out on the road: $4 gas leads to lots of stolen manhole covers for the extra change (USA Today)
• Obama to rename Bush's faith office (Politico)
• Evangelical leaders meet and decide to back Sen. John McCain: More than 70 evangelical leaders decided to support Sen. John McCain at a meeting in Denver on Tuesday. (Charisma)
• When car seats become church pews: New Hope UMC (Christian Post)
• STDs run rampant at Pa. school district, CDC steps in (Fox)
• Cool hand-cranked greeting cards (Boing Boing)
• Quantum of Solace teaser trailer: It continues the high octane adventures of James Bond in Casino Royale
• Report: Two-thirds care for environment because it’s God’s creation (USA Today)
• Woman sat dead in front of TV for 42 years (Daily Record)
• Cloudy trophies: John Keats’s obsession with fame and death. (New Yorker)
• “Dark Knight” selling out three weeks early! (Wired)
• U.N.: U.S. food aid arrives in N. Korea (USA Today)
• How to dreadlock (HowToDread)
• Generation Y ready to serve: Young people today need ‘meaningful work’ (UM Portal)
• The art of Japanese flowers (NY Times)
• UMCOR presence is “sign of hope” in battered Midwest (UMC)
• Mugabe's African pals: Will no one stand up to this tyrant? (Wall Street Journal)
• Not just on “Family Guy”: Q&A with Adam West
• Fact and faith: Mark Mittelberg says this is no time to jettison logic. Interview by Stan Guthrie (Christianity Today)
• Orthodox rapper, actor from Brookline reflects on his evolution (Wicked Local)
• “Wild Women in the Kitchen” (Patina)
• Wanted: inner city supermarkets (CS Monitor)
• Retirement: the meaning of Bill Gates (Economist)
• Study: More Americans know a homosexual than know an evangelical (Christian Post)
• Second graders bestowed with free tuition now have diplomas (USA Today)
• Clergy revolt over women bishops: Clergy members have written to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York to say they will leave the Church of England if women bishops are ordained. (BBC)
• “Space Invaders Extreme” a fantastic update to an arcade classic (USA Today)
• The tyranny of the heirloom (NY Times)
• How would God vote? by Michael Medved (TownHall)
• Fire guts landmark Kansas City Barbecue (SD Union Tribune)
• In search of Nepal’s living goddesses: A prepubescent deity of Hindu-Buddhist tradition is also a modern child of HBO and Barbie. (CS Monitor)
• Japan’s cult retro-gaming TV show debuts in English (Wired)
• The politics of hip-hop: can rap change the world? (Economist)
• United Methodists unite to send help to Sudan (UMC)
• Dell’s sudden interest in good industrial design (Boing Boing)
• Singers try their hands at art (USA Today)
• Zimbabwe’s polls largely empty and only one candidate (CS Monitor)
• Book: Marilyn Monroe biography (Amazon)












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