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 [http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9514379/].
Eric Scheske
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. Link
[http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110007340]. The writer raises good
points, and I wish his conclusions were right,
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 newborns with
the parents' consent.
> A letter outlining the new directives will be submitted to parliament for
discussion
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 main computers that direct traffic on the Internet, reiterating
U.S. intentions to keep its historical
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
inside porcelain statues of Christian saints.
> Anti-narcotics police chief General Jorge Baron said the four- to five-month-
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 that the brains of long-term alcoholics atrophy and
shrink, the study authors say, but the
Brews You Can Use
But can I get my wife to wear the radio transmitter?
> A beer mat that knows when a glass is nearly empty and automatically asks for a
refill has been created by thirsty researchers in Germany. . .
> The disc-shaped mat can be attached to a normal beer mat
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 to releasing a directive to
exclude most gay candidates from entering the priesthood, leaders of Roman
Catholic men&
Odd Consumer News
Put these in the high schools: french fry vending machines. Link
[http://www.patatachef.com/patatachef.html].
Pagan Place
I found this great website a few hours ago: The Pagan Pride Project. It's full
of good stuff, like this preliminary statement to its definition of "pagan":
> What is a Pagan?
The following definition is for the purposes of the Pagan Pride Project. Others
may