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...might expect, "Prop 8 - The Musical" is Shaiman's attempt to pick apart the anti-gay marriage lobby's logic. Lending support to the cause are Jack Black, John C. Reilly, Maya Rudolph, Craig Robinson, Neil Patrick Harris and Allison Janney (who, in a cheeky nod to Mormons' support of the ballot initiative, is listed in the title credits as "Prop 8 Leader's #1 Wife"). Despite the collection of comedic chops on stage, the spoof isn't trying to be funny. Well, OK, it is - but the larger point it intends to hammer home is that not all Biblical...
...look forward to going to a Great Sci-Fi Convention in the Sky when I expire," he wrote. "I am vaguely contemplating opting for a cryogenic comeback but in case I don't become a human people-cicle, I, like Isaac Asimov and other thinkers I admire, don't expect to wake up in some spirit realm of an afterlife. I've been a secular humanist since I was 15, long before the term was invented, and nothing since has changed my mind...
...here is what we do know about crowds, generally speaking, and none of it is as malicious as we might expect...
...Parliament building in Cardiff in front of the Queen. For Lewis, the best part of being a National Poet was her interactions with ordinary people. “I met all kinds of people and experienced a tremendous amount of warmth from ordinary people. I didn’t expect that,” she says. “People would come up to me and say ‘Are you the poet?’” Currently, Lewis is working on two plays based on the Clytemnestra story, as well as a novella that...
Nothing so cheers the soul of a hardened businessman as the sight of a competitor on his knees. So you'd expect the spectacle this week of Detroit's struggling Big Three carmakers begging Congress for $34 billion in loans and lines of credit would be cause to break out the sake in Japanese boardrooms...