Those crazy Wiccans:
The widows of two combat veterans sued the government Monday for not allowing Wiccan symbols on their husbands' military headstones.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs allows military families to choose any of 38 authorized headstone images. The list includes commonly recognized symbols for Christianity, Buddhism, Islam and Judaism, as well as those for smaller religions such as Sufism Reoriented, Eckiankar and the Japanese faith Seicho-No-Ie.
The Wiccan pentacle, a five-pointed star surrounded by a circle, is not on the list, an omission that the widows say is unconstitutional.
Why no phallic symbols on that list? What if I'm a worshipper of Baal? Maybe I'm really into Lingam and Yoni. Shouldn't I be allowed to have a phallus on my tomb? Those close-minded types at the Pentagon (how ironic is that name, incidentally) are really making me mad.
Visit Europe while you still can. No, it's not the Wiccans (though the multi-culturalism that allows Wiccans to get any respect is related to the following). Mark Steyn speaks frankly about the future of Europe:
Well, my view of Europe in 20 years' time is that you'll be switching on the TV, you'll be looking at scenes of burning and conflagration and riots in the street. You will have a couple of countries that are maybe in civil war, at least on the brink of it.
You will have neofascists' resurgence in some countries and you'll have other countries that have just been painlessly euthanized in which a Muslim political class has effectively got its way without a shot being fired -- and large numbers of people, particularly young people, have left those countries and have moved on to whoever will take them.
Porn flourishes in Afghanistan. It's considered almost (almost) as bad as Christianity. Related: An Orange County sheriff's deputy was injured early Monday when he crashed his cruiser while turning into an adult store parking lot.
The McCain-Giuliani ticket took another step forward. Hillary-Obama, McCain-Giuliani. Are you pro-life? Get ready to have some free time in November 2008. I don't think McCain or Giuliani would even resist the gay movement. They're too morally relativistic to care. Quite frankly, of the four, at this point I have the most faith in Obama. He seems to have clear thinking at the root of his political philosophy, though it gets hopelessly muddled by the time he translates it into terms that get him elected in the Democratic party.
Oscar-winning actress Rachel Weisz has sparked controversy by saying it is acceptable for pregnant women to drink alcohol.
The 35-year-old, who recently gave birth to her first child, said she thought it was "fine" for expectant mothers to have a glass of wine after the first three months.
For crying out loud. My wife's OBGYN is Mormon, and even he says it's acceptable to have a glass of wine or two (or a beer or two) during pregnancy. Weisz could've stabbed her baby in the head with scissors when it came out of the womb, and no one would've cared. But drink a glass of wine during the first trimester? That's outrageous.
Man, all this wine talk has made me thirsty, and I have a potentially hard court hearing in a few hours. I think I'll stop now and uncork one. Is it 7:00 a.m. yet?
