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Gotta Love the Honest Scholarship

> Alcohol is more harmful and causes more deaths than the drug ecstasy, a leading scientist who advises the Government on drug safety is warning. > Professor David Nutt, a senior member of the drugs panel which recommended the downgrading of cannabis, is calling for the current system of drugs

Cheech and Chong Nation

I missed this story yesterday: Mexico is poised to legalize cocaine, heroin, LSD, marijuana, PCP, opium, synthetic opiates, mescaline, peyote, psilocybin mushrooms, amphetamines, and methamphetamines. LA Times Link [http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-legalize3may03,0,5634216.story?track=tothtml] . I gotta believe this was on the TV news,

White Guilt

Shelby Steele at WSJ, [http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008318]courtesy of Suicide [http://suicideofthewest.com/?p=289]: > After World War II, revolutions across the globe, from India to Algeria and from Indonesia to the American civil rights revolution, defeated the authority inherent in white supremacy,

Hide Your Goat

More and more of these stories are coming, and we still have seven weeks to go: > With June 6, 2006, rapidly approaching, authorities in Colorado and elsewhere are carefully watching to see if that date - 6/6/06 - spurs demonstrations or violent activity [http://www.denverpost.com/

What's Next? Re-habbing Rape?

> A former Jesuit turned university professor has set himself an ambitious project: rehabilitating the devil [http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/satan-victim-of-a-devilish-image-problem/2006/04/11/1144521339095.html] . Of course, "Satan" is the embodiment of evil itself, so you can't rehabilitate him anymore than you

The Spider Eudemon

Crawling the web: Fr. Neuhaus on global warming [http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=229]. The Crunchy Con blog at NR has ended. Dreher has a new Crunchy Con blog at Beliefnet [http://www.beliefnet.com/story/189/story_18930_1.html]. Dawn Patrol reads a Planned Parenthood employee'

Caitlin's New Book

Fine stylist Caitlin Flanagan has waded further into the feminist wars with a book on working mothers. The LA Times [http://www.calendarlive.com/books/cl-et-flanagan12apr12,0,487361.story?coll=la-home-headlines] has a pretty a good piece about it. Excerpt: > These are the women who seem to be a

Suing to be Intolerant

The Huff Po headline said, "Christians Sue For For [sic] Right to be Intolerant." It linked to this LA Times [http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-na-christians10apr10,0,6596503.story] story that's entitled, " Christians Sue for Right Not to Tolerate Policies." It's

Space Exploration

Here's a picture of my family at the Huntington, Alabama space center. I enjoyed the visit. The center displays all aspects of space exploration. But one thing was missing from this humongous NASA public-relations effort: Any mention of what space exploration has benefited us. This huge complex offered

David Dross

Another item for my hectic Monday morning: David Scott left miscellaneous notes in the draft bank. He describes them as "dross," which might be true, in the sense that they're only loosely connected thoughts that were meant to go together at some point. But they'