quote [ I am doing penance at home by entering the fifth dimension. This work I cannot do in the office. ]

quote [ Buddhist monk has backing of local labour bureau after he said he had to work sometimes for two months without a break ]

quote [ A new Freethought Caucus advocates for atheists and ?nones.? ]

quote [ The White House announced Friday that President Donald Trump intends to appoint Mehmet Oz, better known as Dr. Oz, to his council on sport, fitness and nutrition.

Oz is well-known as a host of an eponymous television show on health and medical issues and, before that, for appearances on "The Oprah Winfrey Show." But he has become a lightning rod for controversy for featuring what critics say is unscientific advice on his show. ]

quote [ Sony stopped making Aibo robotic dogs in 2006. Since then, an electronics repair company has been keeping them "alive" through organ donations from "dead" Aibos. But never before a proper funeral. "We'd like to return the souls to the owners and make the robot a machine to utilize their parts," says A-Fun CEO Norimatsu. "We don't take parts before we hold a funeral for them." Bungen Oi, the head priest at Kofukuji, who conducted the ceremony, says of the Aibos: "All things have a bit of soul." Letter sent with dead Aibo: "Please help other Aibos. Tears rose in my eyes when I decided to say goodbye." ]

quote [ The Good Lord does indeed shine her Divine Intervention upon us. ]

quote [ Hundreds of couples toting AR-15 rifles packed a Unification church in Pennsylvania on Wednesday to have their marriages blessed and their weapons celebrated as ?rods of iron? that could have saved lives in a recent Florida school shooting. ]

quote [ After the shooting in Parkland, Florida, it looks like more Americans are getting fed up with the go-to response of Republican politicians who offer nothing more than ?thoughts and prayers? in response to these tragedies.

A Michigan woman named Fern responded to those NRA-backed politicians brilliantly: ]

quote [ The head of a mega-church in the Philippines was detained at Honolulu's airport after federal agents found $350,000 in cash on the private plane he was on. ]

quote [ A group called The Satanic Temple is going to bat for a woman identified as "Mary Doe" who contends that the state?s informed consent law violated her religious beliefs. ]