2008-09-26
Controversial evangelist leader Tony Alamo arrested in child sex investigation
Controversial evangelist leader Tony Alamo was arrested in Flagstaff, Arizona Thursday and faces charges related to child sex abuse allegations at the Tony Alamo Christian Ministry organization. Alamo has previously been convicted on charges of tax evasion. United States federal agents raided Alamo’s compound in Arkansas on Saturday and six girls were taken into state [...]
Comments (0) Filed under: NewsWax, North America, Sicko — NewsWax @ 10:55 am | 134 views2008-08-26
Pastor Michael Guglielmucci admits his cancer was a hoax; Videos being removed from YouTube
Christian Pastor for the Planetshakers youth movement in Australia Michael Guglielmucci has admitted that his cancer is a hoax. Wikinews has also learned that one of the churches he preached at has had videos showing his claims of cancer removed from YouTube, claiming copyright infringement. He has also admitted to being addicted to pornography for [...]
Comments (0) Filed under: NewsWax, Oceana, Sicko, Weird — NewsWax @ 8:53 am | 897 views2008-07-01
Why are winos so disproportionately male?
Suppose someone says, “There’s a bunch of winos on that street corner.” You approach the indicated area. You expect to see a group of women in ragged dresses passing around a bottle of wine that is perhaps still in its brown paper bag. Or at least that is what you expected to see prior to [...]
Comments (23) Filed under: Analysis, Conservatism, Crime, Culture, Economics, Family, Feminism, Mating, Marriage & Divorce, Mayhem, Money, Psychology, Science & Nature, Sicko, Society, Vox Populi — Denise Noe @ 1:55 pm | 96 views2008-06-30
Now and On Earth: A gritty novel reviewed by Denise Noe
Now and On Earth: A gritty slice-of-life novel
Reviewed by Denise Noe
Jim Thompson is probably best known for his hard-boiled crime stories. “Now and On Earth,” a semi-autobiographical novel, is not a crime story. It is a gritty and realistic slice-of-life novel in which he unflinchingly conveys the bleak lives of a financially strapped extended family [...]
2008-06-28
My Father’s Active Retirement
In a previous blog, I wrote about a major disadvantage of fulltime homemaking as an occupation: there is no retirement from it. In that blog, I mentioned that my father is retired from being a cab driver. In the years since that retirement, he has never once expressed any guilt feeling about failing to pick [...]
Comments (0) Filed under: Conservatism, Culture, Family, Fatherhood, Feminism, Health, Humor, Mating, Marriage & Divorce, Psychology, Sicko, Society, Vox Populi — Denise Noe @ 9:41 am | 10 views2008-06-22
The Museum of Dr. Moses reviewed: Spooooooky!
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The Museum of Dr. Moses
This volume of short stories by the extraordinarily gifted Joyce Carol Oates is subtitled “Tales of Mystery [...]

