Religion is much on the brain these days. As some of you know, a while ago I started editing the "Faith Walk" column that appears every Saturday in our pages. My predecessor, Bill Norton, did an all-call every year and selected 12 people from the community to write about what their belief system means to them in their everyday lives. The group I inherited included a scientist named Chuck Lunney, who proudly identifies himself as an atheist. This weekend was his turn, and he used the occasion thttp://blogs.kansascity.com/tvbarn/2008/04...

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In Sunday's New York Times, Elizabeth Edwards wrote a guest editorial titled "Bowling 1, Health Care 0," which limned the press for (among other things) its "shallow news coverage" of the 2008 presidential campaign: The problem today unfortunately is that voters who take their responsibility to be informed seriously enough to search out information about the candidates are finding it harder and harder to do so.... Is Edwards right or is she wrong? Take a look at this screencap of the online vehttp://kevinallman.typepad.com/kevin_allma...

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or the lack thereof. After three full months of chemotherapy, as of the middle of this week, I no longer have any lower eyelashes, and hardly any upper eyelashes. With everything else that chemo does to a person, I don’t really know why this is bothering me so much, but it is. It’s the small things that I sometimes focus on and that bother me, upset me. The hair growing in weirdly, the pimples from steroids and probably one of the drugs that’s being pumped into me, the bloatedness from the shttp://justenjoyhim.wordpress.com/2008/04/...