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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

I read this in the wee hours a couple of nights ago and rather than read the whole thing again to find the huge tracts I wanted to quote, I’ll just quote a bit from the end and let you read the whole thing. It’s really astonishing.

New Yorker – THE RUBBER ROOM<br/> The battle over New [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

…Of paranoia about molesters’ impact on society:

The Times – Girls should not have to fear the world outside The cases of Jaycee Lee Dugard and Laura Dekker will only reinforce the view that we should lock up our daughters, by Melanie Reid

But a far greater tragedy is the impact her story will have on [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Telegraph – We are now so spineless, I will never see a man walk on Mars<br/> A demented scheme to vet adults who visit schools illustrates how averse the world has become to risk, argues Boris Johnson

It was the crowning achievement of humanity so far – to plant a person on the face of [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

Telegraph Blogs – Holy Smoke: The latest child abuse scandal is as Irish as it is Catholic, by Damian Thompson

One of the most delicate questions surrounding the wicked child abuse by Irish Catholic clergy, brothers and nuns is this: how much of the abuse was Irish and how much of it was Catholic? [...]

Categories: History

I don’t really want to get into this (oh Google, what will you do to me?), but my mind’s been working about something.

The Times – Catholic Church is living with one foot in Hell<br/> Don’t look away: it’s unbelievable that we still haven’t learnt the lessons from systematic child abuse in Ireland, by Libby Purves

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Categories: History

I found it rather interesting that Netflix delivered Slumdog Millionaire to us on the day this story broke:

Times Online – Bulldozers flatten home of Slumdog star Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail

Council workers have bulldozed the Mumbai home of the 10-year-old child star of Slumdog Millionaire, leaving the boy and his family homeless for the second [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

The Sunday Times – Poor Carla: dismissed with a pat on the backside, by India Knight

Acres of newsprint and media commentary were expended last week on the “battle of the bottoms”. Nobody appeared to think this was especially silly since the bottoms happened to be female and belonged to Carla Bruni-Sarkozy and Princess [...]

Categories: Entertainment

Well, well:

The Times – Children in Need<br/> Britain can learn from European residential care, but at a price

A group of MPs travelled recently to Denmark to visit children’s homes in Copenhagen. It was a case of taxpayers’ money well spent. The House of Commons’ Children, Schools and Families Committee found large, cheerful institutions staffed [...]

Categories: People and Current Events