Current Affairs

John McWhorter is interviewed in U.S. News & World Report about the ghetto blues [http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/060220/20qa.htm]. Good stuff. Best excerpt: > The people who think that black poverty and its manifestations are all about racism would be very surprised if they

Having been Muslim once, . . . [http://www.lewrockwell.com/featherstone/featherstone49.html] I found that statement in an article at Lew Rockwell by Charles Featherstone, who, I think, is now Catholic. It's not often you see that type of statement, unless it's part of an epitaph. Lew

I dislike crimes against hate speech, but this sentence strikes me as fair. If there's a tangible connection between one's words that encourage murder and the murder itself, the punishment is hitting at the action, not just the words. It's a fuzzy line, but

> A particularly bad strain of chlamydia not usually seen in this country appears to be slowly spreading among gay and bisexual men, an infection that can increase their chances of getting or spreading the AIDS virus. > Called LGV chlamydia, this sexually transmitted disease has caused a worrisome outbreak

> A maximum-security jail was in a lockdown Sunday, a day after a race- related riot left one inmate dead and more than 100 injured. > Investigators were interviewing hundreds of inmates and witnesses to the fighting that erupted between black and Hispanic prisoners Saturday at the North County

Delivering body blows to the multiculturalists who would have us kiss the feet of the new barbarians [http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,398853,00.html]: > Be proud, do not apologize. Do we have to go on apologizing for the sins our fathers? Do we still have

> Civil rights activist and NAACP Chairman Julian Bond delivered a blistering partisan speech at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina last night, equating the Republican Party with the Nazi Party and characterizing Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her predecessor, Colin Powell, as "tokens." > "The

Those Danish cartoons keep firing up the Muslims [http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,398532,00.html]. Then again, pretty much anything fires up the Muslims. A reader writes: > Anonymous post for your blog (because my husband does not want me to write or say anything in

Brian Saint-Paul points out that condoms don't stop the spread of AIDS in Africa [http://www.beliefnet.com/story/183/story_18348_1.html]. Excerpt: > [A] March 2004 article in the medical journal "Studies in Family Planning." Titled "Condom Promotion for AIDS Prevention