That in all the coverage of the "polygamist sect" that the news doesn't mention that this is a crazy, fundamentalist branch of Mormons?  I've heard some news stories that refer to them as FLDS, which stands for Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints, but mostly they just use the vague, general term "polygamist sect."

Jon Krakauer's book Under the Banner of Heaven is an interesting exploration of this sub-sub culture and the history of the Mormon church even if it is a bit patchy.

Still, I am vexed by the media's refusal to call a spade a spade.  Those people are Mormons, students of the Book of Mormon, believers in the angel Moroni and followers of Joseph Smith.  And even though the modern day, mainstream Mormon church eschews polygamy, Joseph Smith and his successor, Brigham Young, did not always reject the practice and this crazy, child-abusing "polygamist sect" is simply following in their footsteps.

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Reuters: Official suspended for surfing porn at work

TOKYO (Reuters) - A city bureaucrat in western Japan was suspended from his job after officials discovered he visited porn websites at work almost every day, often spending hours gazing at nude photos, a city official said.

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"The man apologized each time we spoke to him, but we couldn't quite get him to explain to us why he did this," [Kazuhiko Ueyama, a Kinokawa City official] added.

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