The Data Road Trip kicks into high gear this weekend as our team sets out for Lincoln, Nebraska; Little Rock, Arkansas; and Sneedville, Tennessee. Stay tuned for video blogs from the road (just don’t call them “vlogs,”) as well as some good, old-fashioned QWERTY. And in [see entire entry...]

How about doing this with our data road trip map:
I was also thinking we should:
(1) Use text messaging to get some of our stories out:
2) Have versions of our websites tailored for cellphones (WAP sites). These would be updated every day or so. They would carry the News21 godsexfamily website logo.
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I’ve tuned the radio to one of the Christian talk stations out of Salt Lake City to prime myself with Biblical perspectives on sex. The timing is perfect: it is the story of Esau, who sold his birthright in a weak moment of desire. Pleasure and passion, the preacher cautions, are the [see entire entry...]

From Don:
Pentagon Confirms It Sought To Build A `Gay Bomb’
(CBS 5) BERKELEY A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military
spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create
a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into
homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting.
Pentagon officials on Friday confirmed to CBS 5 that military leaders
had considered, and then subsquently rejected, building the so-called
“Gay Bomb.“

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Built in the 1950s, St. Petes has withstood Chicago’s awe-inspiring skyline. This photo was taken and posted with one of our Nokia phones, which the News21 Berkeley crew will be using to report their stories while on the road.
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Tomato pickers in Immokalee, Florida are paid roughly 45 cents for every 32 pound bucket they pick. On average, they earn about $10,000 per year. A few miles down the road in Ave Maria, on land once farmed for tomatoes, you can buy a house with a swimming pool for nearly $500,000.
 
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We’re using some of these, but gotta say, some of them are really out there…
United Methodist Church
Though the flesh in you `lust against the Spirit’, you may still be a
child of God; but if you `walk after the flesh,’ you are a child of
the devil.
–John Wesley, 1703-1791
Roman Catholic Church
The bubbling impulses of puberty befogged and obscured my heart so
that it could not see the difference between love’s serenity and
lust’s darkness. – St. Augustine, 354-430
Buddhism
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Before this week, I’d never been to a Catholic Mass. Since Saturday, I’ve racked up three at Immokalee’s Our Lady of Guadalupe Church – two in Spanish and one in Haitian Creole. Padre Ettore, the lead priest, told me not to bother going to the mass in English. “That’s for the old timers,” he said, “and drained of life.”
 
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One of the things I picked up yesterday while attending Latin Mass was a copy of The Angelus, Ave Maria’s student newspaper. I had already heard a lot about this paper. It is referenced in Bill Donahue’s story in last month’s issue of Mother Jones and had made several other appearances in publications about Ave Maria. Being of curious mind, of course I had to read the document for myself.
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