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Maybe the “my year doing such and such” fad has jumped the shark. On this morning’s “Today” show, author Hephzibah Anderson talked about her new book about going a year without sex. Video below:

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You can read the article here...


6 questions for an atheist undercover in an Evangelical church


In the new issue of Esquire magazine, disgraced former governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich calls himself “blacker than Barack Obama”. Not surprisingly, that caused quite a stir and a quick apology from Blago. What the media hasn’t written much about is the other person Blago compares himself to in that very same article: Mordechai.
In the course of a conversation, he is not only Galileo; he is Teddy Roosevelt and Robin Hood and Bobby Kennedy and Rocky Balboa. And Mordecai of the legend of Purim.
Purim?
“The Book of Esther.”
Purim?
“Yeah. And I’m Mordecai. Falsely accused. I didn’t do those things. This whole story is epic. What helps me get up every morning is, I’m fighting the fight for something much larger than me. I’m fighting for what is at the basis of what our country is supposed to be, a place where you’re presumed innocent, where if in fact you did something wrong, the system plays out in such a way where the truth comes out, not people being forced to lie and being squeezed to lie. If you love your country as I do, this is a fight worth fighting.”
You can read the entire Esquire interview here.



