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All right! This is perfect: Our culture treats pet animals like children. This woman treats pet animals like unborn babies: > Summoned to the woman's East Orange home by a neighbor complaining about a stench, city health inspectors found 48 cats inside the house -- 38 of them

Goodness knows the poster girl for Walker Percy's culture of the naughty-nice, Britney Spears, is annoying, but could we give the girl a little peace and give the rest of the world a break from the pregnancy coverage? > Britney Spears' morning sickness is reaching new levels

We'd love to get the word "sin" back into everyday discourse. Whatta coup that would be: Bill Clinton sinned with Monica Lewinsky; Michael Jackson is accused of atrocious sinning; Stealing from a client's trust fund is a sin. We never held out much hope

> Sentinel chickens will be used throughout North Dakota as a warning system for West Nile virus, the state Health Department says. > The chickens act as bait for mosquitoes that may be carrying West Nile. > About 80 chickens will be placed at eight sites throughout the state, said

Described by one disgruntled liberal as "William F'in Buckley," Chris Rock has potential to be a big thorn in the left's side, and the potential has increased: > Chris Rock rocks. "Everybody Hates Chris," the comedian's UPN comedy has emerged

Tom Friedman is a successful artist, so successful, in fact, that he thinks his excrement is art. Tony Christie's agreed to try to sell a two-foot white cube with a barely visible black speck of Friedman's excrement. How is that art? Let Friedman explain: > "

Reminds us of Chesterton's observation: If God did not exist, there would be no atheists: > As they watch religion increasingly dominate American political discourse, nonbelievers will gather in San Francisco today for their first "All Atheist Weekend" -- in an effort to put a friendlier

James Schall has written a piece in honor of the 100th anniversary of G.K. Chesterton's Heretics. Link [http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2005/print2005/schall_heretics_may05.html] . Here's an excerpt (a somewhat thick one, so read attentively): > Today, the only popularly acknowledged public "

We'll have an abbreviated Weekend Eudemon this time. It's Michigan Week, it's May, it's busy at the office, it's a wonder we have any eudemon at all. But we do. This Weekend Eudemon was written Friday evening, after attending Michigan

Yet another instance of the ACLU backing the gays in a local battle. Link [http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000929248] . Excerpt: > Student journalists sued their Bakersfield high school district Thursday in an effort to keep the school's principal from censoring