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> Its backers describe it as the "world's biggest ever mythological theme park." Hindu gods such as Ram, Hanuman and Krishna will be the central attractions for a 'Disneyland on the Ganges' in India. Link [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/

Joseph Epstein on the malcontents at colleges and universities: > Universities attract people who are good at school. Being good at school takes a real enough but very small talent. As the philosopher Robert Nozick once pointed out, all those A's earned through their young lives encourage such

The Vagina Monologues and the filth it inspires are fine. Parallel antics from the penis's perspective? That's not acceptable. Link [http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/sommers200505020808.asp]. Excerpt: > College administrators have been enthusiastic supporters Eve Ensler's play The Vagina Monologues and schools across

Sex romps and drinking binges in the ruins of a medieval castle in Bridgend, Wales, have led to it being closed to the public. Link [http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/tm_objectid=15465792&method=full&siteid=50082&headline=romps-leave-castle-in-ruins-name_page.html] . Couldn't they

"William Woodard, 39, suspected by police in the Trenton, N.J., area of more than 50 burglaries, was arrested in March, and authorities said they were confident they could match him to what had become one of the "signatures" of the crime spree: random splotches of excrement

As human procreation drops, we replace children with dogs--and legislative efforts reflect it. In addition to a bill to ban pet cloning, here are three other bills currently in front of the California legislature alone: > Ӣ Dogs would be allowed to roam free on a mile-long section of Dockweiler State

FARGO, N.D. - Police arrested a 21-year-old man early Saturday after he allegedly assaulted a pizza delivery driver who refused to take marijuana as payment, police said. Link [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/newsreel/].

> A pregnant woman named Akono was quoted in a March Agence France-Presse dispatch from London during demonstrations against U.S. policy in Iraq as saying she planned to intensify her own protest by soon going on a hunger strike, reasoning that she wants "to do everything I can

Hilaire Belloc often pointed out that modern Western civilization runs off the fumes of the civilization built by the Catholic Church (see, for instance, Belloc's Europe and the Faith). At least one modern scholar agrees with him. Today is the official release date of Thomas E. Woods'

At Winthrop University students can learn how to create and form their own pieces of medieval armor, learn to brew medieval beer, and distill medieval wine. Link [http://www.thejohnsonian.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/05/01/42751af0ed7f9]. It's odd, sure, but we kind of like it.