Current Affairs

> 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,

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

> 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

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

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

Suicide of the West continues to impress. This is David Pearson, commenting on plans to turn six ports over to Arabs and saying to the Arab world, "We'll treat you fairly [http://suicideofthewest.com/?p=130]." > “We'll treat you fairly.” Look out, little

> Muslims should reciprocate the respect that Christians show for religious freedom, the Vatican Secretary of State argues. > Cardinal Angelo Sodano, speaking to reporters at a reception in Rome on Monday evening, avoided any specific reference to the Danish cartoons which have been a focal point of anger in