Current Affairs

FYI: While watching Fox News, we just heard the first positive accounts out of New Orleans this week. The armed thugs have largely disappeared as National Guard troops roam the area. Supplies are arriving. The Fox News commentator: "The light is coming back on in New Orleans."

Chrenkoff has a great collection. Link [http://chrenkoff.blogspot.com/2005/09/hurricane-exploitation-quotes.html]. Sample: > As Hurricane Katrina dismantles Mississippi's Gulf Coast, it's worth recalling the central role that Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour played in derailing the Kyoto Protocol and kiboshing President Bush&

. . . 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

> 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-

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