Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Will there be gospel music for the new found religion?

When you scan so many sources of news over the Internet you can easily be distracted by some bizarre headlines that may attract your attention only because you might want to find out why such and such happened or what was the end result of the situation... like how did this happen?: ( These are all from Great Britain's The Telegraph )

How did this happen?

British passenger wakes up in Canadian hangar

A British academic who fell asleep during a flight woke up in an aircraft hangar after cabin crew mistakenly left him on the plane.

Kris Lines, a lecturer in sports law at Staffordshire University, was woken up by a surprised mechanic 90 minutes after his flight landed in Vancouver, where he was due to speak at an international conference. ...
Read more here


Now this next one is really strange.  It begs the question, "Will Al Gore become the first pope of the CCC? (Climate Change Church)" And will there be gospel music for the new found religion?

Climate change belief given same legal status as religion

An executive has won the right to sue his employer on the basis that he was unfairly dismissed for his green views after a judge ruled that environmentalism had the same weight in law as religious and philosophical beliefs.  ...Read more here and here (Pat Dollard's website).

  

Could we say that the following is the ultimate vicarious experiment?

Pornographic magazine for the blind launched

A pornographic magazine for the blind has been launched - complete with explicit text and raised pictures of naked men and women.  Read more here.


Back in the 80's I was stationed in Germany but never learned the language...I should have slept on it!

Croatian teenager wakes from coma speaking fluent German

A 13-year-old Croatian girl who fell into a coma woke up speaking fluent German.  Read more here.

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