Transsexuals and Acceptance
My latest at CE
[http://www.catholicexchange.com/vm/index.asp?vm_id=1&art_id=32169].
Topic
Current Affairs
A collection of 493 issues
Fat Kids Everywhere
> Nearly half of all Western Hemisphere kids will be overweight by 2010, the
International Obesity Task Force report says in the International Journal of
Pediatric Obesity.
NY Post Link [http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/60660.htm].
Well, we can't have that. I guess we'll
A Few Good Muslims
David Warren congratulates a handful of intelligent Muslims who are challenging
their religion's fanatics [http://www.davidwarrenonline.com/index.php?artID=578]
. It takes courage and resilience. Excerpt from conclusion:
> Since the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington, many thousand other barbaric
acts have been
Trans(con)fusion
> A Knoxville firefighter claims she's being discriminated against because she
used to be a man.
> Fire Capt. Jamie Faucon has filed a grievance against Knoxville Fire Chief
Carlos Perez and her supervisor, Mark Foulkes.
> She accuses them of depriving her of a take-home car, of
Identity Soup
Hey, those frogs have some character, after all:
> More than 200 political demonstrators defied a police ban here on Thursday,
scurrying across Boulevard St.-Germain and under the sycamore trees of Place
Maubert to engage in their forbidden action: eating "pig soup" in public.
> With steaming
Mammoth Cave
You want to take your family to Mammoth Cave [http://www.mammothcave.com/]?
Sorry, no babies allowed, unless you want to carry them in your arms. New
security regulations don't allow any baby backpacks. My wife called, and they
said "no exceptions."
That rules out my
Mexican Decadence
> When Mexican freelance journalist and human rights activist Lydia Cacho
published a book last year exposing a paedophile ring, she was warned by friends
and colleagues that she would run into trouble.
> It did not take long for their warnings to come true. She was arrested by the
We Don't Build Character Anymore
Nice piece at WSJ about sexual harassment in school
[http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110008009]. We wonder if our youth will
grow up with any character, and then we coddle them and give into them and never
test them. And then we're shocked that the kids grow
Poor Houston
The whole Katrina thing has made one thing abundantly clear: New Orleans has a
lot of despicable folk, but this is quite humorous:
> New Orleans doesn't want its poorest residents back – unless they agree to work.
> That was the message from three New Orleans City Council
Death is Always the Answer
Some day, this woman will be considered a pioneer, and all the good people who
deserve God's creation can stand around, toasting her memory, thanking her for
getting rid of those who don't deserve it:
> A health official in the Netherlands has called for a