The recent six-part Monty Python Reunion show, featured on the Independent Film Channel, has created a resurgent wave to find the Holy Grail among a new generation of Christian evangelicals in America.

Although these born-agains had not even heard of the artsy IFC, and wouldn’t have watched it anyway, they claim that the Python reunion series appeared to them in their morning toast — on a day that Jesus just happened to be on sabbatical.

This renewed crusade isSource: The Satirical Political Report RSS Feed

From an email I received today….
“Nothing else need to be said. This is one of their THREE DAY WORK WEEKS that we all pay for. I am ready to start from the beginning by voting out all elected officials and not letting any of them stay in office for more than two terms.
No more lifelong healthcare, retirement, voting in their own pay raises, taking perks on our taxes, etc.”

House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero Jr., R-Norwalk, pictured standing, far right, Source: Chicagoray RSS Feed

Capitol Weekly reports on an interesting recent political dialogue in California.

Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco, famously told the governor to “kiss my gay ass” at a Democratic fundraiser last month. Two days later, the governor responded in the veto message of one of Ammiano’s bills.

Earlier in the month, the San Francisco Democrat was at a boisterous Democratic fund-raiser when Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger stopped by to say hello. TheSource: Never Yet Melted RSS Feed

From a Godless (apart from the liberal religion) Associated Press:

Fla. man says Home Depot fired him over God button

By Brian Skoloff, Associated Press Writer Wed Oct 28

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – A former cashier for The Home Depot who has been wearing a “One nation under God” button on his work apron for more than a year has been fired, he says because of the religious reference. The company claims that expressing such personal beliefs is simply not allowed.

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Nicole Clark, 17, above, at her onetime sleeping spot.
By IAN URBINA
NYT (second of two parts)
ASHLAND, Ore. — She ran away from her group home in Medford, Ore., and spent weeks sleeping in parks and under bridges. Finally, Nicole Clark, 14 years old, grew so desperate that she accepted a young man’s offer of a place to stay. The price would come later.
They had sex, and he soon became her boyfriend. Then one day he threatened to kick her out if she did not haveSource: Vox Verax RSS Feed

The Samaritans were a despised and denigrated tribal group in ancient times. Yet, who was it who had the eyes to see, the heart to act when all others avoided the battered and ran away? It was a Samaritan.

As the ancient story is told… a poor soul lay by the side of the road, beaten to a bloody pulp. Men of the priestly classes crossed to the other side of the road to avoid helping the bleeding man. Other travelers merely stepped over the dying man. Yet, one, an old man Samaritan,Source: The Moderate Voice RSS Feed

Clowns.

State higher education officials say tuition and fees at North Dakota’s public colleges and universities went up at a rate much less than the national average.

They cite a new report from The College Board saying the average published price of in-state tuition and fees at public four-year colleges increased 6.5 percent for the 2009-10 academic year and 7.3 percent at public two-year colleges.

University officials say that in North Dakota, four-year universitySource: Say Anything RSS Feed

An anarchist social worker raided by the feds wants his computers, manuscripts and pick axes back. He argues that authorities violated the U.S. Constitution and the rights of his mentally ill clients while searching for evidence that he broke an anti-rioting law on Twitter.

In a guns-drawn raid on October 1, FBI agents and police seized boxes of dubious “evidence” from the Queens, New York, home of Elliott Madison. A U.S. District Judge in Brooklyn has set a Monday deadline toSource: Threat Level RSS Feed

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Today Blue America is hosting an old friend here at Crooks and Liars, Representative Paul Hodes. Paul first came onto our radar in 2006 was he was campaigning– successfully, as it turned out– against entrenched incumbent Charlie Bass in New Hampshire. Blue America endorsed him and has been gratified to see him consistently standing up for working families in the House of Representatives. He was one of the Democrats who put his foot downSource: Crooks and Liars RSS Feed

From NY1:
Some unwelcome visitors swarm an apartment in Kew Gardens, Queens, as residents say hundreds of ladybugs descended on some of their balconies.
Local say the insects are becoming a big nuisance.
“It’s hard because I want to leave my balcony door open. I’m trying to clean, and they’re all flying in. I had to close the door, so it’s been very inconvenient for me,” said a local. “It’s just gross, because they’re flying on you and getting in your hair, your shirt. You getSource: Queens Crap RSS Feed