The Associated Press brings us the latest from Cairo:
Hard-hitting questions for Egypt's Morsi
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Gov't RFID tracking: Creepy or mark of the beast?
When I first heard rumblings about school districts in Texas using locator chips to track students, I assumed it wasn’t true.
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Richard Ostling -- finally! -- sets up an online camp
Anyone who has followed GetReligion for very long knows what the letters WWROD stand for. I mean, the first reference of this kind showed up only a few weeks into the blog’s existence, way back in 2004.
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Too little news, too much analysis?
A flurry of e-mailed links to religion news stories flies back and forth each day among your friendly neighborhood GetReligionistas.
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One tragic, haunted, story about a dead streetwalker
Every now and then, The Washington Post focuses quite a bit of talent and effort on telling a long, detailed story that focuses on the darker, more tragic, side of life here in The District.
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Sandra Fluke, Time's 'Person of the Year' and tender stories
Time magazine is doing its annual PR blitz for its “Person of the Year.” After I won the designation in 2006, I stopped paying attention to it. Since then the honor has gone to Vladimir Putin, Barack Obama, Ben Bernanke, Mark Zuckerberg and “the protester.” And yes, if you’re wondering, the tradition of selecting a Man of the Year began in 1927 with Time editors contemplating newsworthy stories possible during a slow news week. We’ve all been there.
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Defining depravity downwards in Deutschland
Der Spiegel‘s English-language bulletin reports that conservative deputies on the Agricultural Affairs committee of the Bundestag have introduced legislation banning sex with animals. I never knew the farm beat for German reporters was so, so … so edgy?
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Times tries to pin a label on Dorothy Day (updated)
Back in the early 1990s, I had a chance to interview the late Father Ellwood “Bud” Kaiser about his unique career as a Catholic priest and as a producer in modern Hollywood, through Paulist Productions. Much of the interview focused on his film “Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story.”
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Going off-script: Angus Jones zaps 'Two and a Half Men'
First things first. I sincerely hope that you’ve never had the displeasure of watching the abominable show “Two and a Half Men.”
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