Today's Juxtaposition Workshop features two stories from today's wires. First, a matter of religious conviction:
A proposal to shield doctors and pharmacists from penalties for refusing to provide health services because of religious or moral objections won approval Tuesday from the Louisiana House, but only after the measure was rewritten to limit its scope.
Are Wal-Mart shoppers low-income fatsos? You might be surprised:
. . . the two free-market economists have been intrigued by the Wal-Mart debate and wanted to test some of the more common criticisms of the store. Generally, they've found that the worst fears about Wal-Mart are unfounded, and that the stores have a mostly positive impact on their communities.
Not to date myself or anything, but I remember when kids were reluctant to go to summer camp because they didn't want to give up TVs and their record players. So this is my favorite story today, about how much more reluctant modern kids are, for the obvious reason:
Ah, the most heart-warming story I've seen all month. Two sisters, given up for adoption, finally meet after years -- and discover they hate each other:
I had expected to feel an instinctive bond, and straight away I was amazed to see we shared many mannerisms.
It's probably too soon to make a big deal over what might be a statistical burp, but this is at least interesting. With the president -- and therefore the poltical establishment -- going one way on abortion, the country seems to be going the other way:
Well, a lot of us could have told the researchers this:
Any old Nigerian scammer can fool most people, but it takes an Irish college student to fool professional journalists:
Every office I've ever been in has had a refrigerator, and, sooner or later, they are neglected for so long that just putting your lunch next to the toxic stuff in them would be inviting food poisoning. But none of them has ever gotten this bad:
An office worker cleaning a fridge full of rotten food created a smell so noxious that it sent seven co-workers to the hospital and made many others ill.
Better sit down for the latest startling news from those underworked and overpaid researchers:
Just because White House officials chose to scare the hell of New Yorkers instead of sensibly using Photoshop, that doesn't mean Fark readers can't have a little fun. Check them all out, but I especially liked this one:
