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Larry\u2019s List: Irish Atheist Edition <\/a>
Ireland\u2019s atheists are battling a blasphemy law while it\u2019s turning into the year of gay China. And you won\u2019t believe what you\u2019ve been eating. These stories and more on today\u2019s list. On a regular basis, Truthdig brings you the news items and odds and ends that found their way to Larry Gross, director of the USC Annenberg School for Communication. A specialist in media and culture, art and communication, visual communication and media portrayals of minorities, Gross helped found the field of gay and lesbian studies. Newer links are on top. Annals of Irish jurisprudence, Blasphemy division, cont. The Minister for Justice is proposing to amend his new blasphemy law by providing, as a defence, that a person accused of blasphemy can \u201cprove that a reasonable person would find genuine literary, artistic, political, scientific, or academic value\u201d in the blasphemous matter. The joy of dirt GRUB, filth, grime, muck, gunk, slag, grit, grunge, smut, dross, dust, sludge, squalor. Insulted, hounded and despised, dirt these days has nowhere to hide. OBAMA DOUBLE CROSSED PROGRESSIVES ON HEALTHCARE Are you feeling like a chump yet? If you\u2019re a good progressive, and you wanted single-payer health care for all, or, second best, Medicare for All Who Want It, or third best, a robust public option, or fourth best, a paltry public option, now you\u2019ve got nothing, nada, zippo. BERNANKE: REWARDING A CATASTROPHE The Senate Banking Committee overwhelmingly voted to approve Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke for another 4-year term. 15 Horrifying Reasons to Never Let Anyone You Love Near a McDonald\u2019s One of AlterNet\u2019s most popular articles of the year: Erectile dysfunction, the truth behind the \u201cspecial sauce,\u201d and a burger from 1996. Keep reading if you dare. Irish atheists challenge blasphemy law An atheist group in the Irish Republic has defied a new blasphemy law by publishing a series of anti-religious quotations on its website. Yummy! Ammonia-Treated Pink Slime Now in Most U.S. Ground Beef You\u2019re not going to believe what millions of Americans have been eating the last few years (Thanks, Bush! Thanks meat industry lobbyists!). Year of Gay China As the year 2009 comes to a close, it does so having been a monumental year for China\u2019s LGBT community.<\/p>\n

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Ireland’s atheists are battling a blasphemy law while it’s turning into the year of gay China. And you won’t believe what you’ve been eating. These stories and more on today’s list.<\/p>\n

On a regular basis, Truthdig brings you the news items and odds and ends that found their way to Larry Gross, director of the USC Annenberg School for Communication. A specialist in media and culture, art and communication, visual communication and media portrayals of minorities, Gross helped found the field of gay and lesbian studies.<\/p>\n

Newer links are on top. <\/i><\/p>\n

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Annals of Irish jurisprudence, Blasphemy division, cont.<\/a>
The Minister for Justice is proposing to amend his new blasphemy law by providing, as a defence, that a person accused of blasphemy can \u201cprove that a reasonable person would find genuine literary, artistic, political, scientific, or academic value\u201d in the blasphemous matter.<\/p>\n

The joy of dirt<\/a>
GRUB, filth, grime, muck, gunk, slag, grit, grunge, smut, dross, dust, sludge, squalor. Insulted, hounded and despised, dirt these days has nowhere to hide.<\/p>\n

OBAMA DOUBLE CROSSED PROGRESSIVES ON HEALTHCARE<\/a>
Are you feeling like a chump yet? If you\u2019re a good progressive, and you wanted single-payer health care for all, or, second best, Medicare for All Who Want It, or third best, a robust public option, or fourth best, a paltry public option, now you\u2019ve got nothing, nada, zippo.<\/p>\n

BERNANKE: REWARDING A CATASTROPHE<\/a>
The Senate Banking Committee overwhelmingly voted to approve Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke for another 4-year term.<\/p>\n

15 Horrifying Reasons to Never Let Anyone You Love Near a McDonald’s<\/a>
One of AlterNet’s most popular articles of the year: Erectile dysfunction, the truth behind the “special sauce,” and a burger from 1996. Keep reading if you dare.<\/p>\n

Irish atheists challenge blasphemy law<\/a>
An atheist group in the Irish Republic has defied a new blasphemy law by publishing a series of anti-religious quotations on its website.<\/p>\n

Yummy! Ammonia-Treated Pink Slime Now in Most U.S. Ground Beef<\/a>
You’re not going to believe what millions of Americans have been eating the last few years (Thanks, Bush! Thanks meat industry lobbyists!).<\/p>\n

Year of Gay China<\/a>
As the year 2009 comes to a close, it does so having been a monumental year for China’s LGBT community. <\/p>\n

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