The goats were sacrificed in front of the troublesome aircraft Sunday at Nepal's only international airport in Kathmandu in accordance with Hindu traditions, an official said.
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Today in Moronia
- California school food standards change teens eating habits for the better
- New male birth control procedure said to be 100% effective, completely reversible
- Video of police fatally beating homeless man causes spectators to leave courtroom
- Gene Weingarten is alarmed at how cheap he’d sell his moral integrity
- Plants use perfume to attract beneficial bacteria to their roots
- Privatized prison labor competes with regular business at 93 cents a day
- There is no invisible hand
- Does Mitt Romney support paid sick days for working mothers?
- No such thing as ‘women and children first’ without threats of physical force
- When ‘stand your ground’ is black vs. white, the sentence is life in prison
Religion
Nepal airline sacrifices goats to appease sky god
Assholes of the Week #6 by Paul Krassner
This is a special edition of these nominations. They all have to do with religion. Not included here, however, is the massacre of 175 civilians in the Yazidi community in Iraq. The victims were mostly Kurds, though neither Muslim nor Christian, and are considered by some to be a demonic cult whose members don’t...
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Today’s Quote
“The religion of Hell is patriotism.” –James Branch Cabell Jurgen, a Comedy of Justice
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If we don’t let them know what it’s called
Maybe they won’t notice when they’ve got one… The word “scrotum” does not often appear in polite conversation. Or children’s literature, for that matter. Continue reading
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Christian pediatrician denies child service because parents are tattooed
“She had to go that entire night with her ear infection with no medicine because he has his policy,” Tasha Childress said.
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