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Great piece by Victor Davis Hanson in The Washington Times about the need to respect our ancestors. Link [http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20050506-090931-9566r.htm]. Excerpt: > To appreciate the value of history, we must also accept that human nature is constant and fixed across time and space. Our kindred

Two by Muggeridge: > When Christ was in the world, He was despised by men; in the hour of need He was forsaken by acquaintances and left by friends to the depths of scorn. He was willing to suffer and to be despised; do you dare to complain of anything?

Microsoft is again pushing the gay agenda. Link [http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBSYSITE8E.html]. Excerpt: > In a turnaround Friday, Microsoft Corp. chief executive Steve Ballmer said the company will support gay rights legislation.

Hmmm. The Virgin Mary under the overpass is back. > But the faithful turned out, and one or more people somehow began to remove the paint. It was not known how they did it, but by afternoon, the image was back largely intact and apparently with no sign of the

There's nothing like stooping lower than your opposition. With dolts like these battling the homo-lesbian community, Andrew Sullivan's campaign for gay rights and marriage is all but won: > The [pro-gay] demonstrators stood on [an] American flag, saying the red strips represented AIDS-tainted blood. The [anti-gay]

> The editor of the Jesuit weekly America is leaving the magazine after the Vatican received complaints about articles he published on touchy issues such as same-sex marriages and stem cell research, Jesuit officials said Friday. Link [http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050506/ap_on_

Now those ecologically-friendly wind farms are bad for nature. How? Birds run into the turbines. Link [http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7350&feedId=online-news_rss20]. Excerpts: > "Available evidence suggests that wind farms reduce the abundance of many bird species at the wind farm site,"

Remember the Small Pax site we mentioned earlier? We found this nifty little anti-anti-smoking picture called "Passive Hate" through that site: Link [http://blog.gleeson.us/sean/2005/04/26/passive_hate].

Ignatius Press has issued the first set of the complete Fr. Brown stories, with notes from John Peterson. Link [http://www.ignatius.com/ViewProduct.aspx?SID=1&Product_ID=2493&SKU=GKC12-P&ReturnURL=search.aspx%3f%3fSID%3d1%26SearchCriteria%3dpeterson] .

Here's a nice site [http://www.smallpax.com/]. From what we can tell, it's a group of illustrators hanging-out together on-line, showing each other their stuff. Two of the illustrators work for Gilbert Magazine. Sample: A great drawing of G.K. Chesterton's Fr. Brown: