Current Affairs

. . . It's not like PP has a conscience. When you're absolutely correct and have all the answers, there's no such thing as a qualm. > Planned Parenthood of Houston and Southeast Texas has offered to provide free birth control pills at its Houston clinics to

WaPo does its best to nuance the sin out of looting. Link [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/31/AR2005083102681_pf.html] . Excerpt: > But, as we are also learning from the post-Katrina chaos, what we think of as looting may be more complicated than it seems.

> Americans are divided over whether humans and other living things evolved over time or have existed in their present form since the beginning of time, according to a new poll. > People on both sides of that argument think students should hear about various theories, however. > Nearly two-thirds

Russian women have long been known for their beauty. Edvard Radzinsky at the Wall Street Journal talks about the new wave of pretties that are coming out of Rus. Interesting stuff. And it makes Eric look forward to seeing his parents' vacation pictures. As he types this, they are

It reads a little bit like one of those e-mails from Nigeria that offer reverse-investment opportunities ("Let my put $100,000,000 in your checking account, and you see get $1,000,000, for done nothing"), but it's a decent update on the RCC trials there:

We're beginning to think all this First Amendment stuff is really just a cover for greed. Could that possibly be? > U.S. porn king, Philip D. Harvey, is suing the Bush administration over its anti-prostitution policies saying that the restriction on U.S. AID funding is an

They're just potatoes, right? > Neighbors struggled Sunday to reconcile the gruesome discovery with their memories of the nice man who once lived on Evans Street. > Pathologists, meanwhile, examined fetal remains found inside a detached garage behind the modest, two-bedroom house that had been Robert B. Winston