The Lippard Blog

From CNN : A Florida woman has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of a lottery millionaire whose body was fo...

Part two of the three-part series in the St. Petersburg Times on Scientology has been published, and it's a detailed account of the dea...

Remember how the press was all over the story of the 29-year-old millionaire white supremacist and fan of Adolf Hitler in Maine who was buil...

In the January 2009 issue of Fortean Times , Theo Paijmans reports the following story of "The Hound of Mons," quoted from the Ada...

We got back from Maryland last night, after spending most of a week at Deep Creek Lake and making day trips to D.C. and Baltimore. The Deep...

Bad timing for this ad campaign . I suppose Greyhound will be looking for a new ad agency?

The New York Times reported Monday about Mexican pet shops selling pentobarbital , which is being purchased by international visitors for e...

Today I've read a few interesting commentaries on the role that certain fundamentalist Christian teachings (specifically a doctrine ...

(I've had this in draft since June 21, but forgot about it--I was making an effort to verify that Dahmer was actually raised as a creati...

...Or is it Peruvians? Or perhaps Peruvian Roman Catholics? From Yahoo News : Hundreds had gathered in the pews of the San Clemente church o...

Orac at Respectful Insolence points out that a recent Arizona death after liposuction was a case of "minor surgery" being performe...

It's not often that an event right in my neighborhood makes the front page of CNN's website , but it did today when a foul smell at ...

The February 5, 2002 murders of Dan O'Connell and James Ellison in a funeral home in Hudson, WI have now been pinned on Roman Catholic p...

"A pastor performing a baptism was electrocuted inside his church Sunday morning after adjusting a nearby microphone while standing in ...