Sunday stuff

An interview with MaryAnn Glendon, Harvard Law professor and now US ambasador to the Vatican.
Key idea: unlike the antireligion of the French enlightenment, in the US /England/Scotland it was compatible with religion and allowed religion to thrive along with rational thought.

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Why do ghosts wear clothing? more HERE.

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Strategypage on the Philippine terrorism news.
Slowly slowly things are getting better.

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PGWodehouse is on Librivox....try not to laugh too hard...

They also have the childen's classic Captains Courageous.
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and HAND FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE has broken out in China.
Actually, it's quite a common illness,--usually seen in summer, where you get sores in the mouth and tiny blisters on the hands and feet--- and usually makes kids miserable rather than dead, but there's been quite a few deaths there, so I wonder if it's a more severe strain of the disease.