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MSNBC is posting pretty extensive coverage about Bono and Nightly News Anchor Brian Williams’ trip to Africa.

“What about sexual behavior, do you teach on this subject?” he asks the teachers. “Do you teach people about HIV?”
Bono asks the questions like any investor would. And that’s what he’s doing here — he’s checking up on the investment he’s made — in time, and in the massive amount of money he’s raised.
A teacher at the school told me they need classrooms most. They have just nine rooms for 700 students ages 5 to 16.
As Bono sees it, the message being taught here is also important.
“They love America in there,” he says. “They love the United Kingdom, they love the Irish people, they love democracy. In there they have classes about democracy. Not far from here there are madrassas, where they are teaching people to hate us. This is a smart thing for us to be involved in, as well as a wonderful thing.”

Kinky was on the NBC Nightly News this week.
Watch the video here.

From NPR:

Lloyd Bentsen, a courtly Texan who represented the state in Congress for 28 years and served as President Clinton’s first treasury secretary, died Tuesday morning, his family said. He was 85.
Bentsen, also the Democratic 1988 vice presidential nominee, died at his home in Houston.

About Lloyd Bentsen
Born: February 11, 1921 in Mission Texas.
Education: University of Texas Law School, graduated 1942.
Military: U.S. Army, 1942-1945
Political Career:
— U.S. House of Representatives from 1949-1955,
— A four-term United States senator from Texas, from 1970-1993.
— Unsuccessfully sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 1976.
— Democratic Party nominee for vice president in 1988.
— Treasury Secretary under President Clinton, 1993-1994.
Sources: The Associated Press, Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress

Pink Dome gives a review of The Da Vinci Code.
He said the movie was more like taking a vacation through Europe, rather than a faith shaking mystery-novel-cum-movie.

The movie did not shake my faith, did not throw me into a crisis, did not make me re-think my beliefs or cause me to start believing in conspiracies. That’s why it’s called “faith” retards.

I’ll let you read the last bit of his review on his site.

“I’ve got a fever for dewberry”
Eric’s getting some love from the AP with his dewberry story he wrote last week – which is very funny because some local folks tried to rip on our paper because they said we only covered things like picking berries.
Anyways, its a great story… be sure to read and enjoy.

Michael has posted a picture that someone in his church drew of him. I would guess it was a child, but I can’t be certain.
It’s interesting though to think of how others view us.
What distinguishing features would someone (especially a child) remember or draw of us.
Would they draw us in a tie, or with sunglasses on?
Would they draw us with a Bible in our hand?
Or maybe they’d draw us handing out candy, offering a helping hand or yelling at the driver that just cut us off on I-35.
How do others see us? And is it the same as how we see ourselves?
And what would we change if we saw how others saw us?