The CNN Daily Mash-up is a roundup of some of the most interesting, surprising, curious, poignant or significant items to appear on CNN.com in the past 24 hours. We top it with a collection of the day's most striking photographs.
We know you can't get enough of Sunday's annular solar eclipse. CNN iReporter Angela J. Wright was shooting photos of the eclipse in Yucca Valley, California, about 10 miles from Joshua Tree National Park, when it took on this eerie configuration. "I was so excited I had to keep my self calm," she said. "I'd never seen anything like it before!"
Marine life experts from Sea World in Orlando, Florida, rescued a 5-day-old bottlenose dolphin that was stranded in a mangrove on Three Sisters Island, reports CNN affiliate Central Florida News 13, which has pictures and video of the cute little guy.
There is a huge patch of garbage - the size of "a Texas or two," one expert says - swirling in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean, and it was there even before last year's epic tsunami in Japan.
This reality reminds us of folk singer Pete Seeger's song "Garbage," as performed in this YouTube video.
Charles L. Worley, the Maiden, North Carolina, pastor whose anti-gay May 13 sermon became a viral video, told CNN affiliate WBTV that he's not being hateful. In the sermon, the pastor of Providence Road Baptist Church suggested setting up what would amount to concentration camps for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. But when asked about it by WBTV, Worley said:
Listen, all of the Sodomites, the lesbians, and all of the ... what's that word? Gays - I didn't wanna say 'queers' - that say we don't love you: I love you more than you love yourself. I'm praying for you to be saved.
But another North Carolina minister, the Rev. Dennis Teall-Fleming, pastor at Open Hearts Gathering in Gastonia, North Carolina, took issue with Worley. In a statement to the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, Teall-Fleming said:
Nothing he says has anything to do with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I call on all Christian and Baptist organizations that have any connection with him to condemn his comments as strongly as I do, including Providence Road Baptist Church of Maiden.
John Reiter
An Iowa man was arrested outside the Dog House bar in Dubuque on Sunday night with a pet zebra and a macaw in the front seat of his truck, CNN affiliate KCRG reports. The man was charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated, but he denies he intended to leave the pub's parking lot. He told the station that he and his wife often take their pets for rides and sometimes take them inside the bar. All righty then.
Voting begins Wednesday in Egypt's first open presidential election. The vote follows last year's popular uprising that led to the ouster of longtime strongman Hosni Mubarak.
A private funeral for disco and pop singer Donna Summer will be held Wednesday in Nashville, Tennessee. Summer died last week of lung cancer, though she was not a smoker, her family said.
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lmao @ mama, kinda funny that mr king of crap would say something about that. Especially since he used to post under lower cased letters in the beginning. The way i see it those that make a big deal out of it are only being pompous jerks!
good night banasy.
Good night banasy.
Good night chrissy. I am tired and I have a big day tomorrow. See you later girl. Take care of yourself. Scottish.
Alot like the spelling, punctuation, and grammer police that were posting in here earlier critiqueing Marys post! It was rude and totally unnecessary!
I did not see Mary's post. Or the grammar police person. I just try to get what they are saying and answer if I can. My punc. stinks, I cannot cast any stones.
Yup me too.
Night chrissy. smiley face here.
Never mind, go ahead and think what you will.
I lost what I really wanted
No me above.
Thank you so much to my "jacker" you have no idea how much I appreiciate the trouble your going to cause. (sarcasm intended)
A man, a zebra and a McCaw walk into a bar. The man says, give me and the McCaw a shot of whisky and a double for the Zebra. The bartender says, "yeah, the zebra must be sad, I noticed the long face..."
how long has that guy been dead?
is anyone tired of the worn out newest "cool buzz word" [viral] yet???? plz,give it a rest...
Great story from Iowa: "A drunk, a zebra and a parrot walk into a bar..."
Notice in the song garbage he mentions that our currency is worthless... hello??
in gold we trust all others pick up trash.... isn't that how it goes? – car 54.
The man in this photo is on meth .Follow him and you will find a meth lab.METH IS NOW THE ZOMBIE DRUG.
Apparently Mr. Reiter can't read very well; Its the DOGHOUSE lounge.
He had a Macaw... A Bird... Also a Zebra... My guess is a Zebra Finch, which is also a bird. I don't see how an actually Zebra was going for a ride in his truck. Even a young zebra would fit strangely inside a truck if it could fit at all. What's up with the stories on here not being very clear?
Nevermind the previous remark, it is a Zebra. I should have watched the video. The guy clearly likes to get drunk and probably burn some grass, doesn't look too much like the Meth type. Meth heads can't take care of themselves much less exotic pets.