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Shatner Sells Kidney Stone for Charity - New York Times: "Actor William Shatner has sold his kidney stone for $25,000, with the money going to a housing charity, it was announced Tuesday.

Shatner reached agreement Monday to sell the stone to GoldenPalace.com."

See -- Democrats can be crazy religious wackos, too

Storms Payback From God, Nagin Says: "Mayor C. Ray Nagin suggested Monday that hurricanes Katrina and Rita and other storms were a sign that 'God is mad at America' -- and at black communities, too, for tearing themselves apart with violence and political infighting.

'Surely God is mad at America. He sent us hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, and it's destroyed and put stress on this country,' Nagin said as he and other city leaders marked Martin Luther King Jr. Day."

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | My Lai massacre hero dies at 62

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | My Lai massacre hero dies at 62: "Hugh Thompson Jnr, a former US military helicopter pilot who helped stop one of the most infamous massacres of the Vietnam War has died, aged 62.

Mr Thompson and his crew came upon US troops killing civilians at the village of My Lai on 16 March 1968.

He put his helicopter down between the soldiers and villagers, ordering his men to shoot their fellow Americans if they attacked the civilians.

'There was no way I could turn my back on them,' he later said of the victims.

Mr Thompson, a warrant officer at the time, called in support from other US helicopters, and together they airlifted at least nine Vietnamese civilians - including a wounded boy - to safety.

He returned to headquarters, angrily telling his commanders what he had seen. They ordered soldiers in the area to stop shooting.

But Mr Thompson was shunned for years by fellow soldiers, received death threats, and was once told by a congressman that he was the only American who should be punished over My Lai.

A platoon commander, Lt William Calley, was later court-martialed and sentenced to life in prison for his role in the killings.

President Richard Nixon commuted his sentence to three years' house arrest."