7/25 Morning Communiqué

CITY PAGES BLOGS AND NEWS

Peter Schilling Jr. bemoans the lack of Twins' scoring at Balls.

Check our gallery section for photos of last weekend's Art Car Parade.

THESE DAYS

The National Braille Press estimates that today only 12 percent of 55,000 legally blind children in the United States can read braille, down significantly from 50 percent in the 1960s.

A study conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life shows that Muslims and white evanglical Christians have significant similarities, especially with regard to the gay lifestyle.

MINNESOTA BLOG OF THE DAY

Erica blogs about seeing Guster, dubious furniture store brochures, and performing with the Twin Cities Women's Choir at swirlspice.

[Minnesota-based blog directory]

TIME WASTERS

Quiz: Ripped from the headlines or plot from Scooby Doo?

If Charles Bukowski had written Peanuts [via BoingBoing]

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

"I learnt how to systematize my impressions and to read other (people's minds), and through the horses I learnt to communicate with the animals on a deeper level. It was while I was taking care of the horses that I got in contact with the angels."

— Norwegian Princess Maertha Louise, claiming to be clairvoyant