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Incest is a terrible thing.  But when you’re one person among a population of 300 thousand, your odds of contributing to genetic bottleneck go substantially up.  That’s the problem in Iceland, where just about everyone is related to everyone else and some downright… creepy… marital relations have inadvertently come about.

(I’m assuming those were inadvertent anyway…)

Enter App of Icelanders, a new app for Android-based devices.  Utilizing a database called Book of Icelanders that has data on 95% of the country’s native population going back 300 years, smartphone users can find information about their family with the touch of a finger.  But the real gimmick is what the developers have named the “Incest Prevention Alarm”: by merely touching your Android smartphone with another also loaded with App of Icelanders, the software automatically determines if you and the other person are cousins.  Or brothers.  Or sisters.  Or parent and child…...

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The talk of the area since yesterday morning has been this billboard on Battleground Avenue in Greensboro (North Carolina). In big bold letters on a wrathful red field it reads thusly: “Michael- GPS Tracker – $250, Nikon Camera with zoom lens – $1600, Catching my LYING HUSBAND and buying this billboard with our investment account – Priceless. Tell Jessica you’re moving in! – Jennifer”.

That LED billboard has caused at least one car wreck (was his name Michael?!).  Some have said the photos are fake but it’s really been on display.

Battleground Avenue, Greensboro, North Carolina, billboard, Jennifer, Jessica, Michael, cheating, cheater, infidelity, wine, Yodaddy's, Yo Daddy's
(Photo credit: Fox 8 WGHP)

Now there is evidence that the entire thing has perhaps been, rather than a jilted wife airing her husband’s dirty laundry on Battleground Avenue, a marketing ploy by a restaurant instead.

At right you see the new message that showed up on the same billboard today.  It’s now alternating with the original ...

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I’m gonna say something here and I don’t care who reads it or what the hell they’re gonna think of me…

ANY man who throws away a beautiful wife and some of the most amazing children that I have ever seen God bless ANYONE with, who mistreats the woman that he had been married to for so long, is a TOTAL BASTARD.

I admit that my bout with bipolar made me make life a living hell for those closest to me, especially my former wife and I’ll always regret that… but even in the darkest times of that abyss I was NOT the asshole that some men seem determined to be. Men who even seem PROUD to be such assholes!

Guys, if God has given you a wonderful wife and such beautiful and smart children and you not only throw that away but treat them THAT bad, well… you ...

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I will not vote for Amendment One.

Neither will I vote against Amendment One.

Because the more I have thought about it and the more that I have seen especially during the past couple of weeks across North Carolina, Amendment One is by far the worst thing that I have ever seen on a ballot in the Tarheel State. And that’s sayin’ something about this place…

For this blog’s readership in various and sundry places not between Manteo and Murphy, Amendment One is the measure on next week’s ballot that would make the Constitution of the state of North Carolina explicitly state that marriage will only be between one man and one woman. As you can probably imagine, this is widely perceived to be a measure attempting to circumvent the legality of “gay marriage”.

I’ve been wrestling literally for the past several weeks on how to articulate what I believe ...

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I’m looking at this one of two ways: that Pat Robertson sincerely believes what he is saying here. Either that, or as I have heard it said a number of times in my life: “Whom God would destroy, He first makes mad.”

During a broadcast of his 700 Club this week, Christian Broadcasting Network founder and “evangelist” Pat Robertson said that it was perfectly justifiable to divorce a spouse with Alzheimer’s disease, on the basis that the illness is “a kind of death”.

What. The. Hell. ?!?!?

In all honesty, I can’t see how Pat Robertson – if this is his genuine belief – is any different from those who support abortion and the “right to choose”. You know: the things that his Christian Coalition was alleged to be standing against for all those years?

(Well, as a follower of Christ, I always thought that the Christian Coalition was ...

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As of tonight, this man has no more excuse for not updating his blog.

Back in May I wrote about my quarter-century long friendship with Chad Austin. Two friends see a lot of things in that time. Lots of good times, and bad. You can’t avoid the heartbreak… but then there are the moments when you get to rejoice, too. Those rich, beautiful slivers of time that make you glad to be alive and remind you that there is a God who rewards virtue and patience.

Chad Austin is one of the most virtuous people that I have ever known. He has also been one of the most patient. He’s always known what it means for him to be happy, and I always knew that he would never settle for second best.

Tonight, he’s been rewarded in spades.

As not only his friend but also a brother, it is ...

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First there’s Roger Weber, who I’ve known for literally all my life. He ties the knot today here in Reidsville, North Carolina.

And then there’s the lovely and effervescent Abby Prince of WebProNews, who I came to know this past year. According to our sources she’s getting hitched somewhere in Kentucky.

Congratulations to Roger and to Abby and their respective spouses-to-be! May God bless you today, and it is our prayer that you and your loved ones have a long and happy life together 🙂...

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Later today, my cousin Meg is getting married. I can’t tell you how much I’ve been looking forward to this. She and John are really, beautifully in love with each other and they are going to have a wonderful life together. And I’ve been hearing for the past few weeks that this is going to be a very wild wedding! I’ll try to post pictures later.

But already, at 5:30 in the morning, this is shaping up to be an awesome day.

I’m going to postpone explaining exactly why today is so awesome until later, when I can have the pleasure of telling a few people and hearing their reaction (no, Lisa isn’t pregnant… yet). Let’s just say that this is something that I’ve been trying to do for a way long time, and as of this morning, success is finally in sight!

And what you see in this image ...

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This post may get a whole lotta folks mad at me, but I don’t care. It needs to be said…

You’ve probably heard by now that the Los Angeles diocese of the Roman Catholic Church is paying $660 million to keep from going to court over long-standing allegations of sexual abuse of children by its priests.

This could have been avoided if the Catholic Church had long ago put an end to its insane policy that forbids its clergy to marry.

The Catholic Church believes that priests and nuns should be “married” to the church. That if the hearts and minds of its clergy are fully devoted to serving the Church, that this will provide an adequate substitute for the natural sex drive that almost all of us have. The implication is that if its priests and nuns are “tempted by the flesh” enough to desire sexual stimulation, then they ...

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