What you missed today
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- If You Spent The Day Losing Your Hat
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- A German court has ruled that circumcision of boys on religious grounds, even with the consent of parents, amounts to bodily harm. It comes after the acquittal of a doctor who was accused of carrying out the circumcision of a four year-old boy that led to complications. The president of Germany's Central Council of Jews called the decision "unprecedented and insensitive." There is uncertainty over how this affects the many parents who request the procedure on health grounds, but a spokesman for a right-hanging, Nazi-leaning lobbyist group said: “If someone needs help keeping their pecker clean, that’s the least of their problems.”
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There were reports earlier today of splitting News Corp. in two, effectively circumcising Rupert Murdoch's baby.
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- Politics Begets Security
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- Amid deadly clashes in Damascus, an Iranian journalist documents how Tehran is trying to broker a ‘political solution’ in Syria, despite the United States, Britain and France opposing Shah involvement at a UN Security Council meeting in Geneva this Saturday. There is also a ratcheting up of retaliation rhetoric in neighboring Turkey.
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"The Road to Damascus" alludes to the Apostle Paul and is used as an idiom to express a turning point in one's life.
- Abuse Of Trust, All But Verified
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- An audio recording of his interview last week with investigators reveals the bones of Matt Sandusky’s beef with his adoptive father – leading to fresh disclosures that the prosecution would have called him as a rebuttal witness had Jerry Sandusky taken the stand to defend himself. Meantime, other questions emerged about a witness.
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Sandusky has five other adopted children, but hasn't been charged with abusing his son.
What you cant miss tomorrow
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- Alternative POV
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- This is what they're saying about RBUTR, a new browser-extension for Chrome.
- “provides us with a very simple method to improve our ability to critically analyze articles online."
- “great application for people who have an open mind and want to use the Internet for good."
- “uses crowdsourcing to provide arguments and counter-arguments on recent articles.”
- Personally, we don’t think RBUTR marks the dawn of online objectivity, but it should well prove to be a valuable instrument for skeptics (be they professional journalists or school-age researchers), in our culture of disinformation.
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In case you can't sleep
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- Edwardian Understatement
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- PRADA has released a behind-the-scenes video of their Fall/Winter 2012 campaign shoot – and it is sexy as sin. Featuring Gary Oldman, Willem Dafoe, Jamie Bell and Garrett Hedlund (all of whom showed for PRADA in their January catwalk show), the look is colonial-industrial, iconic and seminal, an ironic play on the influential.
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"Someone once described alcoholics as egomaniacs with low self-esteem. Perfect definition." -Oldman
- Bang To Rights
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- An article titled “Dementia, sexuality and consent in residential aged care facilities” published yesterday in the Journal of Medical Ethics is causing a stir because it finds that old folks intent on being sexually active in nursing home environs are being suppressed by care-givers, which may constitute the violation of a fundamental right.
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Seventy-seven year old Shigeo Tokuda, a retired travel agent, is the world's oldest porn star.
