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Thursday, July 14, 2011

The Sun or Where Else Would I Learn About Pastafaians?

Rupert Murdock's News of the World has ceased publication ostensible in response to the phone hacking scandal in Britain.  (Reporters hacked into phones of relatives of soldiers killed in Afghanistan, impeded a murder investigation by deleting phone messages on a missing girl's phone leading police to believe the girl was still alive, and bribed security officials guarding Britain's royal family.) 

Fortunately the Sun is still publishing.  How else would I learn that Austria's Niko Alm successfully campaigned to be photographed for his Austrian driver's license with a pasta strainer on his head? Although an atheist, Alm claimed to be a Pastafarian, a devotee of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, their "only dogma is the rejection of dogma".
If Othodox Jews could wear a yarmulke despite Austria's proscription about head gear in the driver's license photo, why couldn't he wear a pasta strainer if it was part of his religious observance?
Makes sense to me.  (It's also a welcome relief from daily reports of bombing, assassinations, and squabbling politicians.)

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