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I’m not the toolish type of gym rat. “I have never intentionally used steroids. Never. Ever. Period.” I’ve also never used them accidentally — and you wouldn’t suspect otherwise. But between playing basketball a few times a week and lifting weights two or three days a week, I’m in the gym pretty regularly.
I’ll admit that I’m a bit ignorant about some of the things that go on in the corners of this country. But there is no way that the inference created by this AP story can be correct.
In other news from the Los Angeles Times Godbeat, the paper recently published a story about an ecumenical effort to preserve California’s deserts.
It was a short story from the Glendale News-Press, a community paper of Los Angeles Times. About 300 words dedicated to a report on repeated petty theft at a Glendale Catholic church. And the amount of space devoted to this news was to be expected. The LAT has an ever-shrinking newshole, and even in fatter times murders have been briefed.
I have a bit of an embarrassing confession to make: Before she died Sunday, I’d never heard the name Debbie Friedman.
There are two basic fee arrangements for legal services: pay by the hour or pay based on a percentage of the judgment you hope to secure.
For better or worse, I’m as Jewish as any of your GetReligionistas. (In a Jewish sense I fall well short of my predecessor here, Ari L. Goldman; I also fall short as a journalist.) Thus, I’m often the guy who gets called upon when there is a bit of Jew news that needs some scrutiny.
Once upon a time, Ted Olsen at Christianity Today gave me the GetReligion treatment. Fortunately for me, the story that caught Ted’s web-crawling eyes was one of the finest from my days as a cub reporter at The Sun in San Bernardino.