Dr. George Tiller, one of the last late-term abortion providers in the country, was gunned down this morning in the doorway of his Kansas church.

... wow. Score one for the "culture of life." Holy geez.

Best article of the day, hands down:

Forget cute, cuddly marsupials. A team of Australian palaeontologists say they have found the fossilized remains of a fanged killer kangaroo and what they describe as a "demon duck of doom".

Lions free kidnapped girl- ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) -- Police say three lions rescued a 12-year-old girl kidnapped by men who wanted to force her into marriage, chasing off her abductors and guarding her until police and relatives tracked her down in a remote corner of Ethiopia.

Film portrays mother's rape in Indian high society- BOMBAY (Reuters) - An Indian author is making a film about the gang rape of his mother, a well-known 1970s model, to show victims are not just the poor and powerless as the country comes to terms with a series of brutal rapes in recent months. The film, "Beautiful Ugly," documents events 28 years ago leading up to and after the gang rape of Sheila Ray, who never reported the crime. She died in 1990 aged 44.

An Avowed Virgin-Until-Marriage Turns Sex Ed Activist- What does it look like, in this time of reportedly unchangeable American minds, when someone becomes radicalized? Surely you remember those 20th-century transformations. The housewife who reads Kate Chopin and leaves her family. The dropout who hears Malcolm X and takes to the barricades. Does it even happen anymore? "The Education of Shelby Knox," a documentary that appears tonight on PBS, says, modestly, yes - and offers as proof a case study in contemporary radicalization. Though the film, which is set in Lubbock, Tex., occasionally expresses smug approval of the salvation of a red-state soul, its intriguing chronicle of one girl's coming to consciousness makes the once-stock drama of ideological conversion seem both more commonplace and more astounding than ever. (I'll be watching this tonight- you should too!)

Steep Cut Proposed for Public Broadcasting- The House Appropriations Committee approved a spending bill on Thursday that would slash spending for public television and radio nearly in half. Broadcasting executives say the action reflects the political bind in which public broadcasting now finds itself. Some traditional supporters are turning lukewarm in the growing belief that conservative Republicans are taking over the system, while traditional critics are mounting another campaign to reduce taxpayer support for the programs.

Before I hear "Oh! But PBS is TEH DEVIL CUZ THEY R LIBRAL!" I would like to point out that PBS brought us Sesame Street and Mister Rogers. Honestly, people.

Rhapsody in Chow: Hip and health-conscious Whole Foods has set the table for success

This article is just interesting because I absolutely love Whole Foods (there's one right by AU). I loved this sentence: Fueled by an increasing number of shoppers willing to pay a premium for healthful fare and a hip and entertaining store to buy it from, Whole Foods has grown from a single store run by hippies for hippies to a $3.9 billion company that caters to upscale foodies who would never dream of buying bulgur wheat in bulk.

The American Taliban. A bunch of fun quotes by notable ... ahem... conservatives. A warning to my liberal readers: it will make you want to scream and run away. Resist the urge to buy a one-way plane ticket to the Great North.

Former Mayor Defends Ex-Klansman, KKK

Harlan Majure, who was mayor of this rural Mississippi town in the 1990s, said Edgar Ray Killen was a good man and that the part-time preacher's Klan membership would not change his opinion. Majure said the Klan "did a lot of good up here" and said he was not personally aware of the organization's bloody past. "As far as I know it's a peaceful organization," Majure said. His comment was met with murmurs in the packed courtroom.

I can only guess what the murmurs were about:

"Who the hell elected this numbnuts to office?"