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OK, concentrate: Jesus forgives the sins, you forgive the trespasses. Mel sues people attempting to spread The Word to a wider audience

In the wake of newly minted evangelist Mel Gibsons much publicized forgiveness of people who forced him to fantasize their disembowelment by disagreeing with him, we discover that he's not quite such a mensch (ask Jesus, Mel, He speaks jewish) when it looks as if his holy crusade might lose some fraction of the hundreds of millions in personal profits he stands to gain by it.

Hollywood star Mel Gibson's company has sued a movie post-production firm where workers reputedly made pirate copies of his hit movie "The Passion of the Christ," court documents showed yesterday.

Mr. Gibson's production company, Icon Distribution, charged that Lightning Media Inc. is responsible for the action of three employees who last month were charged by prosecutors with copying the films at the facility.

In the suit filed in Los Angeles, Icon is seeking more than $150,000 in damages and an order barring the post-production company and its employees from copying or distributing the controversial "Passion."

As the Gospels tell us, Jesus had very strong feelings about property rights (see Ann Coulter's "They'll have to pry the loaves and fishes out of my cold dead hands: Jesus and the role of automatic weapons in fast food market protection")

In other Mel news, Steve Martin points out a small problem with the script: "In the description of the bystanders, there should be a space between the words 'Jew' and 'boy'"

wow, slow to load much?

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Oh, dear.

Spalding Grey was found in the East River (upriver from the route of the Staten Island ferry).

What a shame.

If you're thinking about suicide, please think about this first: if you're such a complete loss as a human being, what on earth makes you think you understand the situation better than the people who love you?

Self-immolation is the refined essence of hubris. If you're such a total debit to humanity that you don't deserve to be here, your loved ones' feelings are better informed than yours, is it not so?

God, this pisses me off.

I find young Andrew so darn charming when we're annoyed at the same people...

Professor Reynolds is debating Mr. Drum on affirmative action in academe, in a sort of our sameness is more than the sum of our differences mutual respect kinda way, and The Poor Man responds to the question left hanging:

Professor Reynolds:

But I'm not the one who's trivializing things here. Rather, it's the universities who lack the courage to push Kevin's approach, and retreat into mealy-mouthed lies about diversity. If you want to justify affirmative action based on remedying historic injustices, fine -- but that's not what's happening. The reason that it's not happening is that such an approach would be massively unpopular and almost certainly illegal, and universities don't want to undertake the effort of changing either public opinion or the law. Instead they talk about salads and quilts and different experiences yielding different viewpoints. So who's trivializing things here?

Mr. Northrup:

A: You.

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oh, lord almighty

Hey, I used my influence to keep from helping the authorities solve the gruesome murder of my hideously sexualized child. This seemed like the natural next step.

Jon Benet Ramsay's dad is considering a run for the House as a Republican candidate.