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A Bosnian man, whose house has been hit six times by meterorites , explains that “I am obviously being targeted by extraterrestrials. I don’t know what I have done to annoy them.” The Washington Post offers a symposium on Should religions intermarry? A Catholic pyschotherapist . . . . Continue Reading »

Doctors in India Worried Over Abuse of ‘Morning-After’ Pill Health-care workers and government officials in India are concerned over the routine and indiscriminate use of emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs), commonly called the “morning-after” pill. The pills, which have a . . . . Continue Reading »

An English engineer solves the mystery of Pisa’s leaning tower’s lean , and finds a way to stabilize it.  Not all Italians are happy. Jonathan Cohn thinks Obama’s a success and gets annoyed with liberals who don’t see that , because they undermine the cause. . . . . Continue Reading »

A very light day. The Buddhist nation of Bhutan Proposes an ‘Anti-Conversion’ Law that will punish “proselytizing” that “uses coercion or other forms of inducement,” a law Christians fear is so broadly worded that they will be falsely accused. Adam Kirsch’s . . . . Continue Reading »

We apologize for the absence of Second Links the last two days. The compiler was down with a stomach bug and finding out that why “feeling like a wrung out dish cloth” is such a good metaphor. In Florence, parts of Galileo have been put on display . “‘He’s a secular . . . . Continue Reading »

An Islamic publication in England has “called Muslims to attend the Mass to convert Catholics and ‘tell the Pope in no uncertain terms what Muslims think of his evil slanders against the last Prophet of God and his message’,” reports Matthew Archbold in Is the Pope in . . . . Continue Reading »

A database of public university salaries , with the figures for some administrators’ salaries that still startle us outsiders. The New York Post offers what one of our editors describes as an almost Eberstadtian take on pornography . (The reference being to Mary Eberstadt’s The Weight . . . . Continue Reading »

New Scientist explores  The Secrets of Laughter , and finds that “laughter is an unexpectedly serious business. ” Observing the human animal in its natural habitat — the shopping mall — they documented 1200 instances of laughter, and found that only 10 to 20 per cent of . . . . Continue Reading »

Argentina Senate to Vote on Gay Marriage [President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner] harshly criticized church leaders on Monday, saying that their discourse on the issue resembled “the times of the Crusades” and that they failed to acknowledge how socially liberal Argentina had . . . . Continue Reading »

We are delighted with the tremendous response to our recent post “Are These the Ten Worst Hymns of All Time?” All along, our plan was to follow the ten worst with the ten best. So now, after much consideration (and a bit of solitary suffering, here and there, among our staffers; it does hurt, . . . . Continue Reading »