The headline at Discover Magazine’s Discoblog says “Growing Numbers of People Marrying Inanimate Objects”, but only two such people are named in the post. I’m not sure that qualifies as “growing”, but it definitely qualifies as barmy.
Eija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer is married to the Berlin Wall.
[…]
Berliner-Mauer (the German name for the Berlin Wall, which she has [...]

Recent comments by Valery Zorkin, head of Russia’s Constitutional Court, would chill the blood of freedom-loving people.
In a speech in St. Petersburg on April 7, the chairman of Russia’s Constitutional Court argued that due to the economic crisis, Russia could descend into anarchy and then turn to totalitarianism. To prevent this, he said, the Kremlin [...]

Physician and geneticist Francis Collins rejected atheism for Christianity as a young man.  He became world-famous as leader of the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium where he oversaw the Human Genome Sequencing Project.
In a recent interviewe with Marshall Allan of the Las Vegas Sun, he gave this response when asked about the relationship between science [...]

A candidate running for the pro-Hindutva Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in upcoming elections in India has been charged with hate speech following an incendiary address in which he attacked Christianity and defamed Christians.  The speech was given near the Kandhamal district of Orissa state, which has been rocked by anti-Christian mob violence that began last [...]

I know it’s Easter Monday but, even so, this “news item” has no business on the front page of today’s Halifax Chronicle-Herald.
Superstore change is in bag
Grocer to alter checkout routine, charge for plastic bags, offer array of reusable sacks
Shoppers may notice a slight change to the bagging procedure in Superstores as of April 22.
Rather than [...]

The collect for today, Monday in Easter Week, from The Book of Common Prayer (Canadian, 1962):
Almighty God, who through thine only-begotten Son Jesus Christ hast overcome death, and opened unto us the gate of everlasting life; We humbly beseech thee, that, as by thy special grace preventing us thou dost put into our minds good [...]