PSA
Blogging could be a little light, at least until later in the day. The flu put
me behind the eightball at my real job. We'll see.
TWE
Therapy for Terrorists
Hey, therapy did wonders for the Catholic pedophiles:
> Terrorist suspects under house arrest [in Australia] will be sent to anger
management school, given psychological counselling and offered training and
education in a bid to turn them from violence.
Link [http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17536306-2,00.
Olson on Lewis
Carl Olson writes about C.S. Lewis' Christianity
[http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2005/colson_cslewisthought_dec05.asp].
Excerpts:
> Even those Catholics who express great admiration for Lewis point out that one
of the weaknesses of Lewis's theological and apologetic writings is a weak, or
hazy, view
Let Men Terminate?
In light of Judge Alito's advocacy of a man's right to have a word in whether to
terminate a pregnancy, a columnist at the LA Times
[http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-daum10dec10,0,5842196.column?coll=la-news-comment-opinions]
asks some fair questions:
> Since we&
Maonster
WaPo runs a review of MAO: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday
[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/08/AR2005120801641.html]
. According to the review (and others I've seen), the book details Mao's
atrocities and shows that he was quite
Something for Sunday Morning
> In the era of technology our life risks becoming always more anonymous and
merely a function of the production process. In this way, man becomes incapable
of enjoying the beauties of the Creator and to see in them the reflection of the
face of God.
John Paul II
Get Ready for a Caning
> A German teenager caught smoking in the toilet of a Singapore-bound airliner
has
ended up in jail after police found him with marijuana, a report said on
Saturday.blockquote>
[http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2005/December/theworld_December291.xml§ion=theworld&col=
Drunk Doofus
> A drunk driver was arrested in Germany after he accidentally rang the police
instead of a breakdown service when he had a flat tyre.
Natural Medicine
I believe there's a lot to be said for natural healing, though Seinfeld and Tor
Eckman [http://www.seinfeldscripts.com/TheHeartAttack.htm] undoubtedly set the
cause back twenty years with that hilarious episode ("The Heart Attack").
Nonetheless, I found this interesting, the yoga stuff aside:
>
Why Didn't I Think of That?
> The mayor of a Brazilian town is trying to bring in a law making it illegal for
residents to die.
> Mayor Roberto Pereira da Silva, of Biritiba-Mirim, came up with the idea because
the town's only cemetery is full.
> He wants to bring in a