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\u2022\u00a0Joe Hanson posted this video\u00a0of what he calls the \u201cworld\u2019s cutest frog\u201d<\/a> a while back and I\u2019ve watched it a dozen times since.<\/p>\n

I can also confirm, based on a sample of a single Yorkie-poo, that this is true: \u201cVideo of tiny, squeaking frog drives dogs crazy<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

This frog sounds like a squeaky dog toy. Willow doesn\u2019t like dog toys that squeak, but she goes nuts over this frog.<\/p>\n

\u2022 In a desperate bid to save endangered rhinoceros, conservationists are borrowing an idea from Bunny Colvin<\/a>, calling for a legal trade in rhino horns<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u2022 David Barton has admitted<\/a> that his \u201chistorical\u201d story supporting his call for guns in schools actually comes from the old Louis L\u2019Amour novel Bendigo Shafter.<\/em> This is unacceptable. If we\u2019re going to start treating Louis L\u2019Amour novels as actual history, then we need to start with The Walking Drum<\/em><\/a> \u2014 his epic historical novel set in 12th-century Europe. (L\u2019Amour\u2019s protagonist, Kerbouchard, is a bit of a Mary Sue fantasy, but the author did his homework and jams the book full of fascinating detail.)<\/p>\n

\u2022 Benedict XVI: The Al Mohler of the Catholic Church<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0I am 6\u20192\u2033. I am therefore grateful to Dan Kois for saying what needs to be said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Lima, Peru, is a big city and it\u2019s in the desert, so the lack of drinking water is a big problem. \u201cSo the University of Engineering and Technology\u00a0has rigged up a billboard to suck drinking water out of thin air<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Scientists say the creature recently caught in the Raritan River in New Jersey<\/a> is not a \u201csea monster\u201d but a lamprey. That\u2019s partially correct. It is<\/em> a lamprey. But a lamprey is<\/em> a sea monster.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0The Onion: \u201cGay Teen Worried He Might Be Christian<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

At first glance, high school senior Lucas Faber, 18, seems like any ordinary gay teen. He\u2019s a member of his school\u2019s swing choir, enjoys shopping at the mall, and has sex with other males his age. But lately, a growing worry has begun to plague this young gay man. A gnawing feeling that, deep down, he may be a fundamentalist, right-wing Christian.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022\u00a0Pro-lifers for disease<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In her exemption request to school officials, [Dina] Check described herself as a Bible-reading, church-going Catholic who believes \u201c\u0080\u009clife is a gift from God and the body is a marvelous work of divine creation to be reverenced as a temple of God.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 Here is your\u00a0February 2013 Biblical Studies Blog Carnival<\/a>. And here is your March 2013 Carnival of Evolution<\/a>. I\u2019m a curious layperson, not an academic, so they\u2019re both a bit over my head at times, but I enjoy both of these fascinating monthly roundups. If you like stories about unearthing very old things that help us learn about the past, you\u2019ll like both of these too.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u2022\u00a0It\u2019s hard to say anything new about how despicable and predatory \u201cprosperity gospel\u201d preachers tend to be, and perhaps Sarah Posner<\/a> doesn\u2019t say anything remarkably original here:<\/div>\n

How many people believed Steve Munsey, and believed that giving him money \u2014 for his family\u2019s salaries, the car, the jet, the other excesses \u2014 would \u201cbless\u201d them? How many dollars did he collect by telling people that God would bless them for giving him money, that their own poverty was caused by a lack of faith and a lack of giving to him, and that God would not be merciful to them unless they demonstrated their faithfulness by giving their money to him?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But whether or not those questions are new, they\u2019re certainly good ones.<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cFirst of all, nothing can be done to your body without your permission<\/a>. So, it\u2019d be a violation of the constitutional right to privacy if that were to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, reassuring a constituent that preschoolers aren\u2019t going to be injected with a Mark-of-the-Beast microchip, while also accidentally reaffirming that Roe v. Wade<\/em> is constitutional, necessary and just.<\/p>\n

\u2022 YNATKC<\/a><\/p>\n

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