12/07 Morning Communiqué

CITY PAGES BLOGS AND NEWS

Britt Robson offers a Three-Pointer on the Timberwolves win over Houston at Balls.

The Ex, Menstrual Tramps, and Aerosmith are just a few of the acts playing around town tonight. Check out Chuck Terhark's City Planner at Culture To Go for a complete itinerary.

THESE DAYS

An American Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing Monday morning after a passenger lit a match to disguise the scent of flatulence.

NBA Commissioner David Stern acknowledged that more player input should have gone into the much-maligned microfiber composite basketballs introduced this season, and is open to returning to the old leather ones.

Polish prosecutors are investigating claims that Deputy Prime Minister Andrzej Lepper employed a woman on condition that she had sex with him.

MINNESOTA BLOG OF THE DAY

Bitter Pill takes on webpage scripting, the War on Christmas, Jesus possibly turning fish into bread, and lots of newborn baby blogging thrown into the mix.

[Minnesota-based blog directory]

TIME WASTERS

The ten weirdest or funniest verses in the Bible

Another movie trailer spoof, this time it's Mary Poppins as a horror flick: Scary Mary [via Boing Boing]

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

"I think it's tragic that a child has been conceived with the express purpose of denying it a father."

— Robert Knight, director of the Culture and Media Institute of the Media Research Center (huh?), responding to the announcement that Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter Mary, who's been in a relationship with Heather Poe for 15 years, is pregnant