Current Affairs

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

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/

> 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.

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.

Stanley Kurtz has written a clever (and thorough) article about gay marriage [http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MTU4NDEzNTY5ODNmOWU4M2Y1MGIwMTcyODdjZGQxOTk] . We're all tired of hearing about it, but the debate is probably just heating up. Excerpt: > The traditional family is losing its monopoly, as new forms of living, like

In case your day is going well, check out this story at The Telegraph [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/05/27/wpolder27.xml] about the European Union's plans to forcibly take land from a farming couple, so the EU can create more