Huh. If you read the whole mea culpa you can sorta' see why he thought his dream was a real prophecy. (He was very sick and got some weird phone call and suddenly got better and attributed it to a miracle.) It just seems like an honest mistake that someone who believes in the Rapture and prophetic dreams might make. I mean, I don't think he was intentionally exploiting people to make money with his book.

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Yeah, I like that he admits it. Rather than, "Er, uh, I meant 2007 days from 2007! Yeah!"

A very very odd combination of article title and teaser:

A safer surgery: Transanal endoscopic microsurgery, now in Las Cruces, is less painful and offers faster recovery

Have you ever tried to use chopsticks, only to have your rice and kung pao chicken fall in your lap? Yet there are millions of people on the planet who, because they use chopsticks from birth, eat [ [link] ]

Wow! There are people who use chopsticks from birth ?!

Those are some impressive infants!

It just seems like an honest mistake that someone who believes in the Rapture and prophetic dreams might make.

Um, poor guy? (N.b.: I didn't click through.)

Hometown paper. Notorious for some really stinky writing.

It would explain some things, though....

chopsticks from birth! That must make breastfeeding an interesting trick.

The dog just barked and woke up the baby. Would like to strangle the dog now.

OH MY! Did I mention that my alum has a facebook type program of their own. I've spent the last two days looking up people. So weird and oddly fun and random. Everyone is listed, even if you haven't registered. The alumni office just adds whatever info they have on you. So, I can stalk the basketball player I was obsessed with and find out that he works for a place that sells translation devices.

Snake saved after eating golf balls

A snake was saved by surgery in Australia after mistaking four golf balls for a meal of chicken eggs, a veterinarian said Wednesday.

A couple had placed the balls in their chicken coup in New South Wales state to encourage their hen to nest, the Australian Associated Press reported.

But the eggs disappeared. However, the couple found a lumpy-looking carpet python nearby.

They took the 32-inch nonvenomous snake to the nearby Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary, where senior veterinarian Michael Pyne operated to remove the balls from the snake's intestine.

The snake was making a speedy recovery, Pyne said.

"Those golf balls weren't moving any further. They were stuck where they were," Pyne said. "If it hadn't been found, it would have died for sure."

A couple had placed the balls in their chicken coup in New South Wales state to encourage their hen to nest, the Australian Associated Press reported.

I read that as chicken soup and got really, REALLY confused.