Current Affairs

What's this country coming (going back?) to? First this [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,210338,00.html], now this [http://www.realbeer.com/news/articles/news-002984.php]: > The Washington State Liquor Control Board is considering new rules that would outlaw the sale of 34 cheap

From The Atlantic Monthly's September bullet reviews of dozens of new books: > Enough by Juan Williams (Crown) > In a book that often reads like a padded reprise of Bill Cosby's famed cri de coeur at a 2004 NAACP gala, the NPR correspondent raises the

Western values 'are causing mental illness.' [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25689-2305849,00.html] I suspect the assertion has merit. What are "Western values" today? Well, they're lots of things, some of which are good, but the article focuses on the ones

If this [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14270562/] doesn't derail her presidential bid, nothing will. Then again, she hasn't endorsed it: > A "presidential bust" of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton was unveiled Wednesday at New York's Museum of Sex, where sculptor

Well, this story [http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060807/music_nm/jackson_dc;_ylt=AkDXpz6VKGlOrFaWAAmxglJxFb8C;_ylu=X3oDMTA0cDJlYmhvBHNlYwM-] interests me, for reasons I'll explain below: > Pop star Michael Jackson has stumbled across a conspiracy by former attorneys, associates and advisers to force him into financial ruin, his

> Teens whose iPods are full of music with raunchy, sexual lyrics start having sex sooner than those who prefer other songs, a study found [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060807/ap_on_re_us/sex_lyrics_teens;_ylt=AtRAPoTeEtPrHppDDirtEKKs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3czJjNGZoBHNlYwM3NTE-] . It has nothing to do with the

Is it me, or are there a lot of articles indicating that the Scots are a bunch of flippin' degenerates? Gambling problem [http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1117732006&format=print] (1-in-10 Scots children have a gambling problem--I don't believe it, but still), drug problem

The Rear Admiral says new barbarian invasions could start in less than ten years. And his warning is literal: he's talking about barbarian roamings and incursions, not just the slow Islamic take-over of Europe that we're currently seeing. Wild stuff [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/

> Spain could soon become the first country in the world to give chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and other great apes some of the fundamental rights granted to human beings with a law being proposed by members of the ruling Socialist coalition. Link [http://www.washtimes.com/world/20060609-101506-4499r.htm]. The

I guess 48 people have now died of bad/mixed heroin in Detroit [http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060530/NEWS06/605300322]. It's obviously a kind of genocide. I guess we can expect a visit from Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson soon.