Wheat and wine shortages create communion crisis

Food shortages and foreign exchange restrictions in Venezuela are causing sacramental scarcities.[Perhaps they should try the USA's rejected GMO wheat and the Italian prisoners' wine?]

Food shortages and foreign exchange restrictions in Venezuela are causing sacramental scarcities.       [“The grape juice won’t transmogrify, but we do have GMO wheat wafers”]

Wine “Cell-ar”

Prisoners on Gorgona Island in Italy become proficient wine producers.

Prisoners on Gorgona Island in Italy become proficient wine producers.

Can you teach an old dog new sniffs?

States where pot has been decriminalized must re-train drug-sniffing dogs to ignore it

States where pot has been decriminalized must re-train drug-sniffing dogs to ignore it

Farewell to Henry Morgentaler

We can all walk taller thanks to Morgantaler

We all walk taller thanks to Morgentaler:

Dingbat!

Chinese student, Ding Jinhau, defaces 3500-year-old Egyptian tomb in Luxor

Chinese student gains international infamy after carving “Ding Jinhau visited here” on a 3500-year-old Egyptian tomb in Luxor

From Forests to Boards

Eco-activist, Tzeporah Berman,once branded an "enemy of the state" and a "whacked-out nature-worshipper" receives honorary doctorate from UBC for her work taking her environmental message into the boardrooms of the most powerful corporations.

Eco-activist, Tzeporah Berman, once branded an “enemy of the state” and a “whacked-out nature-worshipper” receives honorary doctorate from UBC for her work taking her environmental message into the boardrooms of the most powerful corporations.

May 29th: Happy 100th Birthday to Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring”

Diaghilev to Stravinsky:  "Don't worry Igor. They'll love it in 100 years!"

Diaghilev to Stravinsky: “Don’t worry Igor. They’ll love it in 100 years!”

Explanation for lack of Posts

Revealed: The reason for  computer crashes. [with apologies from HD&C for being unable to post for several days.]

Revealed: The reason for computer crashes. [with apologies from HD&C for being unable to post for several days.]

The Fall: Apple’s Cooked Books?

Apple CEO Tim Cook testifies before a Senate Committee about his Company's tax-avoidance practices.

Apple CEO Tim Cook testifies before a Senate Committee about his Company’s tax-avoidance practices.

Stein Wars!

German Brewers are demanding Chancellor Merkel block shale gas "Fracking" extraction over fears groundwater contamination could taint the purity of famed German Beer.

German Brewers are demanding Chancellor Merkel block shale gas “Fracking” extraction over fears groundwater contamination could taint the purity of famed German Beer.