First Bankers In Hell

Surreal: Ana Casas-Wilson, a disabled woman in California facing eviction - and offering a good-faith mortgage payment to prevent it - was arrested after she and 80 supporters protested outside the home of Wells Fargo executive Tim Sloan, thus violating an ordinance aimed at keeping away just such rabble-rousers. It gets worse...

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Uprooting Trees and Lives

The latest lofty move by the Middle East's self-professed only democracy: Israel has ordered Palestinian farmers in Deir Istiya, a West Bank village, to uproot at least 1,400 olive trees they have tended for generations because.... Petition to halt the largest of many such actions, now at a stand-off thanks to protests.

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Crack That Wrist, Man Up, Give Him A Good Punch, You Were Made By God To Be A Male, and Amen

Sean Harris, the "pastor" of a North Carolina Baptist Church, got some flak after advising congregants to beat the crap out of their sons - aka "squash like a cockroach" - if they're "dropping the limp wrist." Now he's issued a fabulously clueless apology and Important Clarification explaining that "parents should not punch babies or children" because only the gospel "has the power to deliver one from (behavior that is) an abomination to God," so too bad your kids are going to hell. Scary, hateful audio. Ditto the amens.

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