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Philadelphia Phillies Introduce Cliff Lee

Phillies want ‘Wild Thing’ Williams to shut up

Mitch Williams wants Rich Dubee fired

Posted in MLB, Sports
Tagged baseball, comments, controversy, Mitch Williams, MLB, phillies, pitchers, Roy Halladay | Reply
Amanda Palmer's new poem is an internet troll's dream

Read this: Amanda Palmer wrote a controversial poem for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

If you haven’t yet read Amanda Palmer’s ‘A Poem For Dzhokhar’ – and if you live in Boston, are on Facebook or Twitter, and don’t currently reside under a large, social-media eclipsing rock then you most likely have – then go ahead and do that now. Not because it’s great poetry. That’s not for us to say, we’re not poetry professors.

Posted in Arts, Entertainment, Gossip, Local, News
Tagged Amanda Palmer, boston marathon, controversial, controversy, Dresden Dolls, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, internet, poem, prose | Reply
U.S. singer Beyonce (L) and her husband rapper Jay-Z walk as they leave their hotel in Havana.
Credit: Reuters

Source: Beyonce, Jay-Z Cuba visit had U.S. Treasury Department OK after all

A visit by American pop star Beyonce and rapper husband Jay-Z to Havana last week was a cultural trip that was fully licensed by the U.S. Treasury Department, a source familiar with the itinerary said on Monday.

Posted in Gossip, National
Tagged Beyonce, controversy, Cuba, Jay-Z, permission, State Department, U.S. Treasury Department | Reply
Newly elected Pope Francis I, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina, leads a a mass with cardinals at the Sistine Chapel.
Credit: Reuters

Vatican denies pope stayed silent during dictatorship

The Vatican on Friday strongly denied accusations by some critics in Argentina that Pope Francis stayed silent during systematic human rights abuses by the former military dictatorship.

Posted in International
Tagged Argentina, Buenos Aires, controversy, dictatorship, dirty war, human rights, Pope Francis, Vatican | Reply
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