just when you thought life could not get any more bizarre

Last night, listening to Fresh Air, in which Strom Thurmond's african-american daughter talked about her life and relationship to the now deceased South Carolina Senator (if you grew up in the south, you will understand, or maybe you won't); and, this morning, reading a Charlotte Observer article about Terrell Owens' declaration that God has cleared him to play in the Super Bowl this week.

I am not making any of this up...