5/17 Morning Communiqué

THESE DAYS

More than 800 Hong Kong residents have called on authorities to reclassify the Bible as "indecent" due to its sexual and violent content, following an uproar over a sex column in a university student journal.

A man caught removing tires from a truck has been charged with stealing the tractor-trailer containing $250,000 worth of Skittles.

Bob Marley's classic album Exodus is to be reissued in a USB Memory Stick format and Micro SD Memory Card format.

MINNESOTA BLOG OF THE DAY

Joy Estelle from St. Paul is a foodie who's eating her way around the Twin Cities, and blogging about it at Eating the Minneapple.

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TIME WASTERS

How to conduct a Klingon wedding ceremony

Bruce Campbell croons Duran Duran's "Hungry Like the Wolf" in the latest Old Spice commercial

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

"The state used the Church to do the dirty work in colonizing the Indians but they already asked forgiveness for that... so is the Pope taking back the Church's word?"

— Dionito Jose de Souza, a leader of the Makuxi tribe in the northern state of Roraima of Brazil, expressing dismay over Pope Benedict's recent comments that Native Americans welcomed the arrival of European priests and were "silently longing" for Christianity