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SF Chronicle – Afghanistan’s dirty little secret

For centuries, Afghan men have taken boys, roughly 9 to 15 years old, as lovers. Some research suggests that half the Pashtun tribal members in Kandahar and other southern towns are bacha baz, the term for an older man with a boy lover. Literally it means “boy [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

A Chinese boy is born with 6 normally-growing digits on each hand and foot, giving him 24 total.

Strangely, three months before the birth of Guangchun, his family’s sow also labored a weird shaped piglet, which had eight legs, two mouths and four ears.

His mother says:

“The pig died two days later. [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

I wish they had a higher res picture available. You can’t see enough of their eyes.

The Times – ‘Take their children and civilise them’: tribe faces threat of modernity

For as many as 65 millennia, the Jarawa tribe are believed to have lived as hunter-gatherers on what are now known as the Andaman and [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Awwww.

A house around the corner (not a pun) had a big Norwegian Flag in their yard last week. This is The House in the neighborhood that does itself up for all the big holidays, but I’m thinking Norwegian Constitution Day isn’t one of them.

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Telegraph – Parents wrongly believe that abduction is a greater threat to children than inactivity and obesity Parents wrongly believe that abduction is a greater threat to children than inactvity and obesity according to a survey published on Tuesday.

RC2 once had a line about only tackling crime will solve the childhood obesity issue, but it would [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

I ran into this song at the Corner, “Close the coalhouse door, lad,”

The third verse is a reference to the Aberfan tragedy of 1966, when a Welsh elementary school was engulfed by a sliding slag heap, killing 116 children.

And I thought, “Huh?”

So, off to Wiki:

For approximately 50 years [...]

Categories: History

Quoted by Damian Thompson in “The Pope, the judge, the paedophile priest and The New York Times“:

However, since my name and comments in the matter of the Father Murphy case have been liberally and often inaccurately quoted in the New York Times and in more than 100 other newspapers and on-line periodicals, I [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

This is such a sweet essay:

Greg Knauss – Preadolescent Panopticon

George Orwell was right, of course, but he was twenty-five years too early. And twenty-five years too old. As much as any civil libertarian feels put upon by the encroaching, omnipresent surveillance of the state, far worse off are their kids. [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

This is how they tried to save the Yellow River Dolphin: “Jiangsu province Changshu City Fluorine Chemical industry land sewage treatment plant (江苏省常熟市氟化学工业园污水处理厂) was responsible for collection and processing of the industrial sewage. However they did not, the sewage pipe was extended 1500 meters under the Yangtze River and releasing the sewage there. 2009 June [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

Instapundit:

NEW HEALTH CARE COST-CONTAINMENT HEROINES! More women choose do-it-yourself births. Soon: Articles on the hip new trend of DIY brain surgery!

The story is about some fool from Ashland, Oregon, who had her baby with just her husband on hand to make sure she didn’t bleed to death. So basically, where the government is [...]

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

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

Telegraph – ‘They wanted to take away our child’<br/> Since the death of Baby Peter, state applications to put children into care has risen by almost 50%, and innocent families are suffering.

Child protection referrals have rocketed in the wake of the tragic death of Baby Peter, and figures published yesterday by Cafcass, the organisation [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Jonah Goldberg:

You could think the underlying crime wasn’t that big a deal (not my position by any stretch), but how can anyone forgive Polanski’s flight from justice? I don’t care what your ideology is, that just makes no sense if you believe in the rule of law at all.

Yes! Thank you!

For further reading [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

The Times – We had flown before; we all know the ropes<br/> Forget the frail or young: they are stuck at the back of the line, by Simon Barnes

The other day the kid that helps run the coffee shop at the corner for his parents was telling a guy in line in front of me about [...]

Categories: People and Current Events