How would you respond to an emailed statement like this?
- I feel as though you flaunt righteousness and faith as something you have more than others.
It seems to me as though you equate politics with faith, and American
hawks simply can’t be true followers of Christ. It seems to me as though
you sometimes take a “Holier [...]

Cre8d has linked to this.
Ranking the Rich – which country really helps the poor?
The CDI highlights and ranks the rich countries’ policies themselves, not their final impact. This approach emphasizes what each rich country—regardless of size and reach—can do to improve opportunities for development throughout the world.
Call it trickle-up economics: When the poor become better [...]

I nearly ruined my day.
It started out nicely enough and got even better…until…..
my modem went.
No big deal, right?
Here in the north, it’s a big deal. I can’t just go to a store and get another one for a couple of reasons.
To make a very long story short, I was in the middle of a very [...]

Villagers from Chagugang rioted over the weekend, destroying a SARS quarantine centre, government offices and cars, in China’s first reported instance of social unrest related to SARS.
The plan was to transform the high school into an isolation centre,” a Chagugang government official, who did not want to be named, said.
“When nearby villagers heard this they [...]

These two tests have been developed by Simon Baron-Cohen, director of the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge.
The theory is simple. Baron-Cohen believes the female brain is essentially hard-wired for empathy, and the male brain is hard-wired to analyze and explore a system.
There are two tests. The Empathy Quotient and the Systemizing [...]

Afghanistan has once again become the leading producer of opium. The resurgance of the drug trade is playing into the hands of war lords and is contributing to the ongoing destabilization and lack of safety in the country.
US-Iraq
This ABC article is pretty ambiguous and I haven’t seen it picked up by other media. It’s a [...]

Bloggedy blog had a great time shameless plugging for comments yesterday.
Then he handed out comment awards. LoL.
I was just over there, and he wanted to hit the 30 mark…head on over and push him well over the top.
Mark Morris has a genuine mystery on his hands. It’s very strange. There are now not one but [...]

The company behind one of the weblog world’s most popular tools is preparing to launch a new service which will attack market leaders Blogger.com head on. SixApart, the company behind the Movable Type weblogging system, is to lanch a new “hosted” service called TypePad later this year.
Like its rival, Blogger, the new system will be [...]