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2010-07-23 11:55 am
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Stranger than fiction

Or, to put it another way - another example of God as a hack writer. Those of you who do not read the local paper may have missed  This story  from yesterday's front page.

Why would the federal government fly a Navy officer, his Samoan wife and her unemployed sister from Hawaii to Minnesota to appear in a small St. Paul, Minn. courtroom?

Would you believe an alleged extortion plot involving the Samoan mafia, an exotic dancer from Guam, her love child, a fearful farm family from Granite Falls, Minn., Mexican hit men purportedly hired by Walmart, and the dreaded Los Burritos gang?

That's the reason. Really.

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2010-06-15 11:11 am
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High Times on Mount Olympus

High Art: Were Botticelli's Venus And Mars Stoned?

NPR does its part to increase our appreciation of classical art.