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Just as long as he wears a condom, everything will be all right: > Africa's last absolute monarch king Mswati III has married another teenage bride to become his 12th wife, a newspaper report said Sunday, less than a month after secretly taking another young woman. . . > Mswati,

Odd historical piece at the New York Times this morning. In the early part of the 1900s, a doctor set up incubators for premature babies and displayed them for a quarter. It would appear he did it for money and because these babies may have died otherwise. Link [http://nytimes.

> The annual President's Dinner, a Republican Party fundraising event featuring President Bush, could get an extra dash of spice this year with porn actress and former California gubernatorial candidate Mary Carey planning to attend. . . > Carey acknowledges that some people just think of her as a busty

Pittsburgh Live's editorialist has written a column about why the Left hates Janice Rogers Brown so much. Basically, she slams into the roots of the Left's totalist vision with a sledgehammer. The column is worth reading. Link [http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/enews/s_342977.html]

We didn't realize this Holmes-Cruise thing has spawned a "Free Katie" movement. Link [http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050609/ap_en_ce/free_katie_5]. Excerpt: > A Web site is selling items with the logo "Free Katie" for

Astute readers may have noticed that we didn't run a Weekly Features Post or a Weekend Eudemon last week. We are not discontinuing those features. Both fell victim to power outages, cable outages, and time outages. We plan to resume both features this week.

> Germany's three oldest bank robbers were jailed yesterday after admitting they stole more than €1.2 million ($1.9 million) in 14 raids across a number of provincial towns. > The men, who became known as the "Grandpa Gang", started their spree in 1988

> Hundreds of naked cyclists rode past Big Ben and the U.S. Embassy in London on Saturday to protest the West's dependence on gas-guzzling cars – and to push for more use of bicycles. > The organizers of World Naked Bike Ride 2005 said protests were expected in

Blogging will be light today. It's graduation open house and baseball season. Plus, it's splendid Jack's ninth birthday, which we plan on celebrating at St. Anne's Chapel (an hour drive from here).

Tech Central Station has a smart article about the wild allegations that JPII is a mass murderer for his stance on condoms in Africa. Link [http://www.techcentralstation.com/061005D.html]. Excerpts: > Nicholas Kristof, of the New York Times, says that the Vatican's rejection of condoms has