In Million-Dollar Theft Case, Church Worker With a Secret Past (NYT)

In sum: the Catholic Church cares much more about getting its money stolen than it does about having its children raped.

The story is that an accounts payable clerk embezzled $1 million from New York Catholic Archdiocese, was fired in June by church officials, which referred her case to the district attorney; she was arrested this week and faces trial. How many bishops and priests in the child-rape conspiracy were fired and brought to trial with that kind of thoroughness and speed?

Row over Pakistan actress Veena Malik nude ‘ISI’ photo (BBC)

Police Sweep Protest From Zuccotti Park (NYT)

A 2 am police raid on unarmed protesters, with press barred. News posted on the NYT site around noon. Nacht und nebel.

As Refugees From Haitii Linger, Dominicans’ Good Will Fades (NYT)

What “good will”? Have the editors and headline writers at The New York Times never been to Washington Heights?
If they had, they would know with unerring certainty that the Dominicans (citizens of the republic, not members of the religious order) hate the Haitians with a passion that makes the McCoys regular Mahatma Ghandis.

“Boehner puts pressure on GOP doubters”

Why did I read today’s Washington Post front page headline as “Boner puts pressure on GOP douches”? I swear that’s what it looked like in the box.

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