Odd Consumer News
A solar-powered handbag designed by a student from Brunel University promises to make finding keys and other items at the bottom of a bag easier. The handbag, dubbed Sun …
Month: September 2005
Muslim Sci-Fi?
There’s a web page dedicated to it. Link.
Kidman Undercuts Cruise
The Buddha v. L. Ron: Nicole Kidman has spoken out in defense of psychiatry, months after her ex-husband Tom Cruise publicly denounced the medical practice. . . After researching …
Airport Security
The Smoking Gun has reproduced complaints from the Transportation Security Administration about airport security. Funny and somewhat disturbing stuff. Link. Excerpt: While one woman was offended by an extremely …
Acceptable Racism?
A doctor has offered to perform free abortions on hurricane evacuees, saying it may be too dangerous for them to wait until they return home. Link.
Diocese Bankruptcy Revisited
The WSJ has run a pretty good op-ed about the Washington Bankruptcy Court decision that made individual parish assets part of the bankrupt diocese for purposes of paying creditors. …
Dutch Expand Baby Killing
Good luck to the ugly Dutch babies: The Dutch government intends to expand its current euthanasia policy, setting guidelines for when doctors may end the lives of terminally ill …
Internet Stays with U.S.
Chalk one up for officials that don’t kowtow to the UN: A senior U.S. official rejected calls on Thursday for a U.N. body to take over control of the …
More and More Grisly
Will Frist want federal funding for this, too? Colombian police searching couriered packages for contraband made a chilling discovery on Wednesday: three human foetuses wrapped in plastic and concealed …
Brews You Can Use II
Alcoholics who smoke appear to lose more brain mass than alcoholics who don’t smoke, according to a study at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. It is already well-known …
Brews You Can Use
New contraption signals bartender to filler up
Order Heads Going to Rome
The NY Times continues its high-radar coverage of the proposed ban on gay priests, looking for any homosexual-sympathetic angle possible: Responding to reports that the Vatican may be close …