Current Affairs

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

Some nasty disease is afflicting England [http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/article548096.ece]: > So far 161 people in the UK have succumbed to the incurable infection which slowly destroys the brain and leads to death. It can be passed by blood transfusions. The answer? Screen donors.

The current issue of The Atlantic Monthly is on the stands. The cover story: " Life After Roe [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200606/roe]" (which I think is available on-line to non-subscribers). I thought it'd be fascinating, but it wasn't. Without too