newsbusters.org - 3/2/2009
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Liberal blogger and Media Matters employee* Oliver Willis channeled his inner Ted Turner last Wednesday, writing on his eponymous Web site.
You see Willis took to his keyboard at 5:20 on February 25, Ash Wednesday, to hack out this 41-word snark about the liturgical ritual (h/t Damian G.):
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theanchoressonline.com - 2/26/2009
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theanchoressonline.com —
In my never-ending quest to restore a useful
awareness over recent, rather bland, instruction, I repost a...
bit of this : A few years ago a deacon pal and I were discussing ashes. He was helping to distribute them for the first time in his ...
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Ash Wednesday 2009
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Oliver Willis —
... Well, it isn’t every day that I get compared to the founder of CNN. The proud know-nothings at Newsbusters are up in arms over this post I made on Ash Wednesday. In the twisted mind of Ken Shepherd, the post was somehow mocking of the entire concept of Ash Wednesday. ...
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