Title: “The Love Dare”

Authors: Stephen Kendrick and Alex Kendrick

Rank: 42

Blurb: “Too many marriages end when someone says ‘I’ve fallen out of love with you’ or ‘I don’t love you anymore.’ The Love Dare discusses how these statements reveal a lack of understanding about the fundamental nature of true love.”

Review: “Now the book itself also consists of a 40-day list of dares. For each day, there’s about a page and a half or so of advice, followed by a specific dare and some space for you to write down your personal reflections. Dares range from things such as practicing patience to writing out a renewal of your vows.”

Customers Also Bought: “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God,” by Francis Chan

Footnote: We’re incorrigible.

The Love Dare [Amazon]

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Turn’s out that Mark Sanford’s lover was also a cougar, and that was her undoing:

BUENOS AIRES — The mystery of who revealed Gov. Mark Sanford’s e-mail messages may finally be solved. A business associate of Mr. Sanford’s Argentine mistress said Friday that private messages between the two lovers had been sent anonymously to a South Carolina newspaper last December by an Argentine man the mistress had briefly dated.

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Last December, the executive said, Ms. Chapur was dating a young Argentine a few months after her affair with Mr. Sanford began. The man happened to see the e-mail messages being exchanged between the governor and Ms. Chapur, said the executive — who said he had direct knowledge of the situation — and hacked into her e-mail account to see the rest.

Infuriated, the man sent the messages to The State, the newspaper in South Carolina’s capital, Columbia.

Sounds familiar …

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Michael Calderone, Politico: “Barack Obama hasn’t yet made a statement on the death of Michael Jackson, which was confirmed around 7 p.m. last night.”

Susan Davis, WSJ: “Obama, a music aficionado, has not released a written statement since news of Michael Jackson’s death broke late Thursday afternoon.”

Katie Connolly, Newsweek: “And he was black, so it seemed reasonable to expect the first black president to have a few heartfelt words.”

Jocelyn Vena, MTV: “Although President Obama held a press conference on Friday (June 26), no one asked him for his reaction to the news of Michael Jackson’s death on Thursday in Los Angeles.”

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Russia’s energy giant Gazprom has signed a $2.5bn (£1.53bn) deal with Nigeria’s state operated NNPC, to invest in a new joint venture.

The new firm, to be called Nigaz, is set to build refineries, pipelines and gas power stations in Nigeria.

We don’t dare.

Gazprom seals $2.5bn Nigeria deal [BBC, via TPM]

Title: “The Trust Committed to Me”

Author: Mark Sanford

Rank: 160,247

Blurb: None. Published in 2000 by the U.S. Term Limits Foundation.

Review: “Unlike the lack of trust committed to my wife and children as I scamper off to Argentina in the dark of night to be with my other family I truly love.”

Customers Also Bought: “Conscience of a Conservative,” by Barry Goldwater

Footnote: Makes a great read on those long international flights!

Bonus: Meet the ghostwriter!

The Trust Committed to Me [Amazon]

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Let’s face it – Farrah Fawcett picked the wrong day to die.  Like those who passed away around the time Ronald Reagan died (Tony Randall, Ray Charles) her story will be washed out to sea by the tsunami of Michael Jackson coverage. Poor Farrah – yesterday, once the Gloved one was declared dead, she went from a banner at the top of the NYT front page to a blurb and a postage-stamp photo at the bottom.

It is also true that coverage of the Ensign and Sanford sex scandals will suffer. And this is unacceptable. These family-values fuckwits need to be mocked, driven from office, and perhaps gelded.

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In two hours, Geraldo Rivera Abuna Pauolos, patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia, will reveal the location of the Ark of the Covenant, fabled container of Steven Spielberg’s bank account the Ten Commandments.

The Ark has been stored in a nondescript government warehouse Ethiopia for millennia, says Pauolos. Many duplicates were made to milk the franchise protect the secret location of the real Ark, but now a museum is being built to suck tourist dollars from the gullible display the holy treasure.

Nothing good can come of this. Least of all, another Raiders sequel.

Update: The Patiarch Vanishes.

‘Ark of the Covenant’ about to be unveiled? [WorldNetDaily]