Friday Snippets and Soundbites

• ec's beloved intern, Chansin, spent her last day with us yesterday! She graduates from Belmont University today, then moves to Texas, where she'll be preparing for her wedding and seminary! Thank you, Chansin, for all your hard work. We will miss you!

• Apparently, in ec editor Mandy Crow's home state of Missouri, legislators are moving to strike down a law that bans the sale of yellow margarine. The law hasn't been enforced for years, and restrictions on imitation butter first began in 1895. It's probable the weird law started as an effort to protect Missouri's dairy industry. Read more about the Show-Me State's strange law here.

• Facebook is one of the ec team's favorite social networking sites. We even have a fan page and a group! But Facebook reached a whole new level recently when an attorney in Australia used the site to inform a couple that they had lost their home after defaulting on a loan! The Australian Supreme Court approved the attorney's application to inform the couple via Facebook after his attempts to talk to them in person at the house or via e-mail had failed. Read all about it here.

• Mark Felt, the former FBI agent who claimed to be Woodward and Bernstein's anonymous tipster during the Watergate scandal, passed away this week. He was 95. Watergate was a scandal involving then President Richard Nixon and break-ins at the Democratic National Convention. The story was broken by Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in 1973, citing anonymous sources, including one nicknamed "Deep Throat." Mark Felt identified himself as that source in 2005, some 30 years after the scandal. Read the journalists' notes and learn about the movie based on the event.

• Snippets and Soundbites won't appear on the blog next week. The ec team will all be taking a little much needed vacation and celebrating the holiday with their families. We pray you have a very merry Christmas! Stop to thank God for His gift!