Archive for July 13th, 2004

Separated at Birth?

My wife thinks that Democratic Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards and the late John Ritter look alike.

Change of Heart

Reuters reports: An Iranian man who struck a suicide pact with his new bride over their guilt for having pre-marital sex is being held by police after he backed out on his side of the bargain, judiciary officials said on Sunday. The couple, who were not named, had been married for just two days when, [...]

Unholy Conduct

The Roman Catholic church is reeling over yet more revelations of priests doing particularly unholy things. And the situation is not being helped by spokesmen who seem to have a penchant for swallowing their feet. A vast cache of child pornography and photos of young priests having sex has been discovered at a Roman Catholic [...]

Pariahs

German broadcasting service Deutsche Welle has some words of wisdom for Israel: Since the territories before the Six Day War in 1967 weren’t part of a sovereign state, one couldn’t speak of an “occupation,” therefore the Geneva Convention wasn’t applicable, the argument went. But out of “generosity,” Israel said it was prepared to follow parts [...]