A family’s cat was killed by a car in front of their home. They had heard that cat meat was very tasty, so they cut up the cat, cooked it and ate it for dinner. To date, they have never regretted the decision and they have not suffered any harm as a result of cooking […]
Sarah and Peter were brother and sister. They were on vacation together away from home. One night they were staying alone in a tent on a beach. They decided it would be fun to have sex. They were both more than 21 years old. They had sex and enjoyed it. They knew that for medical […]
A man goes to his local grocery store once a week and buys a frozen chicken. But before cooking and eating the chicken, he has sexual intercourse with it. Then he cooks it and eats it. He never tells anyone about what he does, never regrets it and never shows any ill effects from behaving […]
Reuters AlertNet:
Iranian students, often the spearhead of the bludgeoned reformist movement, on Monday protested against the banning of presidential candidates, chanting slogans against the authorities.
A Reuters witness said 100 to 150 students were clapping, whistling and shouting ‘down with dictators’ from inside their university dormitory in central Tehran.
About 50 ventured out into the street, but […]
This article in The New Republic Online is interesting reading. It argues that the number of wars, and the global risk of dying in war, have gone down steadily since 1991.
While many reasons are explored, there is one that seems to be missing, although the evidence is present right in the article:
The […]
Kosovo
(via The unpopulist, where Rob of Fine? Why Fine? is guest blogging.)
This FuturePundit post is thought provoking.:
Political scientist James Fowler has created a mathematical model of human behavior that suggests that ‘moralists’ who voluntarily pay a cost to punish ‘misbehavers’ can come to dominate a population and ensure cooperation among its members.
‘This may help explain mass political behaviors like voting,’ Fowler said. ‘When individuals say, ‘It […]
This PunditGuy post is making the rounds of the blogosphere this morning. It compares the Jedi to Catholic priests and claims that Anakin’s fall, resulting greatly from his marriage to Amidala, can be seen as support for the Catholic Church’s requirement that it’s priests be Celibate.
I doubt that is something that Lucas intended, but […]
This New York Times article is disturbing reading. Read it anyway. It is important that we understand what has happened and why.
Let me first say that this strikes me as being very good reporting. The New York Times seems to have gone to great lengths to make sure they covered it completely […]
Tom Friedman inThe New York Times:
The fact that the White House spokesman Scott McClellan spent part of his briefing on Tuesday excoriating Newsweek - and telling its editors that they had a responsibility to ‘help repair the damage’ to America’s standing in the Arab-Muslim world - while not offering a single word of condemnation for […]
