Saturday, March 04, 2006

How do you tell the pizza from the box?

Sounds like a great place to live: no sex and shitty pizza. What's not to like?

Pizza Magnate Modifies Plans for Fla. Town
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Domino's Pizza founder Thomas S. Monaghan, who is helping to bankroll the birth of a Florida town and university, backtracked Friday from comments that he'd like the community to be governed by strict Roman Catholic principles.

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Monaghan's comments Friday contrasted with statements he made last year to a Catholic men's group in Boston that pornographic magazines won't be sold in town, pharmacies won't carry condoms or birth control pills, and cable television will carry no X-rated channels.

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"The misconception we're trying to clarify is that this is not going to be a strictly Catholic town. ... I think it would be boring if in fact it was all Catholic," Marinelli said.

Finally, a flash of sanity. Or maybe just good-old greed, American style. In any case, it appears that Ave Maria Town won't have mandatory confessionals at all voting booths after all. "Bless me Father, for I have sinned...I voted for a pro-choice lesbian Democrat..."

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