Foolish Me . . .
. . . I thought this might be a slow newsday:
This Week:
The King's Cup Elephant Polo Tournament.
September 5 - 11, 2005
Hua Hin, Thailand.
Link [http://www.thaielepolo.com/].
Eric Scheske
Yikes
For an extra $10, you can be somebody's boy. Twenty dollars will get you an S&M
prison guard beating:
> A Malaysian prison is offering adventurous travellers the chance to experience
the joys of prison life - right down to the food and lack of toilets.
>
Digital Essay: Fantasy Fretting
Well, it's early September and that means one thing:
Football purists complaining about Fantasy Football
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_football_%28American%29].
Dave Kindred at The Sporting News came out early with a column on August 1st
[http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=11427]
FEMA's Origins
A bi-partisan monster? We're anxious to know what happened in N.O.
> President Carter's 1979 executive order merged many of the separate
disaster-related responsibilities into a new Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA). Among other agencies, FEMA absorbed: the Federal Insurance
Administration, the National
Orleans History
Tech Central Station has run a brief history of New Orleans' origins. Kinda
neat. Link [http://www.techcentralstation.com/090305A.html]. Excerpt:
> The [French bank] charter also granted [John Law's] company control of
Louisiana. Law reappointed Jean Baptiste LeMoyne, Sieur de Bienville, to a
second term
A Shocker
And people complained about the Latin Mass:
> Pop star Britney Spears has confessed that she cannot understand her Kabbalah
books, the holy texts on the mystical Jewish faith.
> Though the pregnant singer, who was introduced to the Kabbalah religion by her
friend Madonna, says she is not able
Spiritualist and Occult Exhibit
New York's Met has a freaky exhibition coming up: The Perfect Medium:
Photography and the Occult. It'll run from September 27, 2005”“December 31,
2005. Link
[http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId={B927CD20-71AD-4986-B346-66AE99B96BA4}]
.
The New York Times reported on
Probably Futile . . .
. . . but it's good to see more and more Catholic clergy showing some backbone:
> Scotland's most senior Catholic has come under fire for claiming that plans to
allow gay couples to adopt were "gravely immoral".
> Writing in a national newspaper, Cardinal Keith O&
Rebuilding N.O.
Michael Barone's thoughts on the future rebuilding effort. Link
[http://www.townhall.com/columnists/michaelbarone/mb20050905.shtml]. Excerpt:
> [S]ome parts of that fabric are not worth restoring. The city of New Orleans has
had a horrifyingly high crime rate in recent years, and after disaster hit,
But It's at Least Grounds for Homicide, Right?
> Shelley Pickering, 44, was married nearly 17 years when she found last year her
husband was having an affair with a younger man, which he admitted.
> A provincial judge refused to grant them an immediate divorce in February
because Canada's common law definition of adultery - despite