Mission inedible

From the Sunday Times: “A bucket of manure from an Olympic-gold-winning horse has fetched £760 in an internet auction. Leslie Law, who won individual gold on Shear L’Eau in Athens, put the bucket up for sale on eBay. It attracted 35 bids before being won by a sports memorabilia store in Southport, Merseyside.”

The Anglican church in Uganda is sending a missionary to Britain. You know, it’s Labor Day, so why don’t you all make up your own joke here, utilizing the elements: 1) missionaries being eaten, and 2) lousy English cuisine.

That story is actually about African evangelicals hating the liberalism (i.e., women and gay priests) of the mother church.

I’ve been referring, like everyone else, to the TWO kidnapped French journalists, whose kidnappers demanded the lifting of the headscarf ban. Evidently we’ve forgotten someone: their driver/interpreter/fixer, a Syrian refugee, was kidnapped with them, but, typically, none of the media reports have mentioned him. Oops.