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Donald Sterling: rich and unattractive ( USA Today photo) Now that Donald Sterling has been banned for life from the NBA, the story sh...

Headline: Ottawa Police Arrest Donald Popadick for Indecent Exposure in Public Park The meaning of Donald is dark stranger . 

Envy is one of the seven deadly sins . Former Scottish bishop Richard Holloway calls it " the meanest sin in the book ": Every o...

The news has been about secrets that have been dragged into the light: mass spying on private communications, disastrous decisions in a terr...

The Secret app home page There's a new app that allows tattlers to divulge secrets without being traced back to them (supposedly). ...

California legislators have killed a proposed "kill-switch" law, which would have required cellphone vendors to install software t...

Candy=>Happy Wife=>Happy Life Ohio State researchers have found that higher levels of blood glucose result in more affection for ...

After tomorrow's pop to $560-$570, AAPL's price will be back to where it was two years ago. Momentum stock investors had long ag...

In an oft-cited essay Stanford professor Mark Jacobson and UC-Davis scientist Mark Delucchi claimed in 2009 that it is technologically feas...

Gabriel García Márquez on the difference between fiction and journalism: I don’t think there is any difference. The sources are the same, ...

The Easter Parade is but a shadow of its former self. Wikipedia : Starting as a spontaneous event in the 1870s, the New York parade became i...

Attendance for Holy Saturday evening services has revived, as more Christians study and honor the roots of their faith. The Church of Engla...

Barbara Brown Taylor ( PBS image) Preacher-philosopher Barbara Brown Taylor says that our avoidance of the dark leaves us poorly equi...

Nancy Pelosi and Marc Andrus (Chron photo) Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Episcopal Bishop Marc Andrus washed the feet of immigrant chi...

The Chronicle 's $99-per-year offer to new Peninsula subscribers--it has since expired--was too good to pass up; it was one-fourth the c...