Rethinking Facebook, incivility and violence

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Radioactive rods in a nuclear power plant.

Can the hateful things we say on social media somehow lead to violence in society?

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Half a ‘Thumbs Up’: After investigation, Joyce Meyer sorta steps up to accountability

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We’ve got to applaud Joyce Meyer Ministries after reading reports she has brought her ministry into line with financial accountability standards.

But she only gets half a “thumbs up.”
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Weekly Beastie: Michele Bachmann

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Beastie, my rolling metal calculating companion, and I were finishing up a game of scrabble the other night when this came over the TV news:
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‘Get thee behind me, Carl!’ – The ToYouBible App

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PRODUCT REVIEW: I don’t quite know how the public will respond to the ToYouBible app, but I’m guessing it will get real scary, real quick. Did no one think this through?
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Signs of the End Times: Spiders encircling Dallas with icky web

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It started first in 2007 near Lake Tawakoni, about 40 miles from Dallas. Described as “something out of a low-budget horror movie,” a glistening spider web draped trees like shrouds, covering an area as big as a football field. The web was constructed by thousands of Guatemalan long-jawed spiders working in concert for the first time.
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