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*** An interview with a Royal Air Force pilot of a Lancaster bomber in 1944.

It's long but interesting, and there's also a podcast version if you'd prefer to listen.

*** Slain journalist Stephen Vincent is honored:

Last week in London, Lisa Ramaci-Vincent accepted her husband's posthumous award from the Institute for War and Peace Reporting in London. The award is in honor of and is named for Kurt Schork, who - like Steven Vincent - began his journalism career in his 40s after several previous careers, was respected for fact-based reporting free of ideology, and was killed in a war zone.

As I've mentioned before, Vincent's writing was terrific.

*** A fatwa against female genital mutilation:

The Grand Sheikh of Al Azhar, the oldest and most highly respected institution in Sunni Islam; and the Grand Mufti of Egypt have released an official fatwa declaring the practice of female circumcision (also called female genital mutilation or female genital cutting) un-Islamic. The decision was made at a conference hosted in Egypt and attended by Muslim clergy from around the world.

Read the rest here.

*** Despite the fact that I claim it as well, sometimes the righty blogosphere goes overboard with charges of liberal media bias. A critique of the MSM's financial reporting is not one of those times.

Nearly every piece of decent financial news over the last 6 years has displayed a dampened good or great news headline further undermined by a bad news subhead, a good news headline relegated to the subhead position or a good news headline buried in the second paragraph. I can't think of an area of the newspaper that's baffled or annoyed me more than the financial section.

Adding to the irony are pre-election analysts wondering aloud why voters perceive a bad economy ...

*** Florida Crackerism of the week:

Ain't that the way of it? You always find what you've been hunting in the very last place you look:

Click for context. (If you see no text, simply scroll down and quickly scroll back up; it will appear. For some reason, Donnah's site has formatting problems.)

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