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Revealed: Lockerbie bomber defies doctors’ prediction of death<br/> The health of the Lockerbie bomber has “not deteriorated” since his release from prison three months ago – despite doctors’ assessments that he would have died by now, a senior source has told The Sunday Telegraph.

The photo reminds me of the Gene Hackman character in The Royal Tenenbaums, [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

The Sunday Times – Crazy law leaves a child out in the cold, by Jenni Russell

Last winter a father I know went to collect his 12-year-old son from an evening at a youth club in a neighbouring village. It was dark and it was raining. There was only one other child left at [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

A couple of years ago, King County changed it’s logo.

Named for a Vice President nobody’s ever heard of, the name “King County” always had faintly Canadian overtones, making one think of our northern neighbors and perhaps evocotive of our shared history. It made one imagine Seattle as a jewel in the crown. One envisioned the [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Islam: at war within itself. By Dr Patrick Sookhdeo, International Director, Barnabas Fund

I though I’d go on for a little optimism for once. (I mean, we can’t be baking all the time…)

Categories: People and Current Events

At least somebody’s celebrating.

BBC – U2 to play Brandenburg Gate gig

U2 are to perform a free concert at the Brandenburg Gate to mark 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The 5 November gig will form part of the MTV Europe Music Awards in the German capital and [...]

Categories: Entertainment

We’re so far behind, not only do France and New Zealand have Conservative governments…

National Post – Tim Mak: Goldwater, Reagan and …Ludacris?

This weekend, hip-hop artist Christopher Bridges came to Washington, D.C. to fundraise and lift awareness for his charitable organization. I’ve searched high and low, and after seeing him speak, I’m ecstatic to [...]

Categories: Entertainment

Sky News – ‘Monster Shark’ Chomps Into Great White

A stunning picture shows a 10ft predator thrashing about with two massive chunks missing on either side of its body, off the Queensland coast. Experts said its rival may be 20ft (about six metres) long, judging by the size of the huge [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

Der Spiegel – Charles Krauthammer, the leading voice of America’s conservative intellectuals, discusses Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize, the president’s failures and the state of the United Nations and the international community.

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

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Telegraph – Date-rape drink spiking ‘an urban legend’<br/> Widespread spiking of drinks with date-rape drugs such as Rohypnol and GHB is an “urban legend” fuelled by young women unwilling to accept they have simply consumed too much alcohol, academics believe.

Young women’s fears about date-rape drugs are so ingrained that students mistakenly think it is [...]

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Here are the goods, via Wheat & Weeds:

What’s being interpreted, for now, as an intra-Christian skirmish may eventually be remembered as the first step toward a united Anglican-Catholic front — not against liberalism or atheism, but against Christianity’s most enduring and impressive foe.

I should have a new category: Intrigue!

Categories: People and Current Events

Telegraph – Barack Obama invites female staff member for golf game after sexism allegations<br/> President Barack Obama invited a female member of staff to join his regular golf game for the first time, following criticism that he was turning the White House into a boys’ club.

He had a game of basketball. An all-male game of basketball. [...]

Categories: Sports and Leisure

This.

Categories: Entertainment

<br/> “The Wardrobe” – Canal+

Categories: Entertainment

Some lady RC2’s quoting, on organized religion:

A lot of people I know call themselves spiritual. They sit around and light candles and think happy thoughts, which is great. I’m not saying they’re not enlightened. I’m just saying that for me, as somebody whose chief sin is intellectual arrogance, I can’t afford to do [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

The Sunday Times – The obese want to have their equality cake and eat it too, by India Knight

Whatever else may or may not have gone on with the fat family — and social services seem to be indicating that weight is only one component — being so irresponsible that you make your [...]

Categories: Science and Nature