AWOKE this morning in a brilliantly cheerful mood. The gulls, for once, were relatively quiet, the sun was casting summer rays though light, fluffy clouds, and the smell of freshly-brewed coffee was wafting up the stairs (I’m loving my new Prestige filter machine with its built-in timer). I then turned on the iMac and learned [...]
A MEXICAN drug gang, La Familia Michoacana, are, by all account, murderous thugs. But they are evangelical Christians too – and, according to this report in Time magazine: Protect their local community … and are disciplined to abstain from narcotics themselves and care for their homes and children. They are also made to study a [...]
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THE Roman Catholic Church has reacted angrily to comments endorsing gay parenthood from a charity with strong links to the Church, according to a BBC report. Terry Prendergast of Marriage Care, which is partly funded by the Church, said there was no evidence children were harmed by having same-sex parents. But the organisation representing Catholic [...]
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A GYM I attended regularly around four years ago acquired a new member – a young Muslim who quickly established himself as the resident sex pest. He would chat up female members, and lick his lips suggestively while staring fixedly at their boobs. Several times he sidled up to me and asked: Well, what do [...]
AWOKE with a start this morning to the raucous cries of the bloody seagulls which have colonised my roof. Oh, and to a barmy new definition of the words “logic” and “rationality”. I’m not sure which was the more annoying – the ear-splitting cries of the winged scavengers, or the squawks of loopy Baptist minister [...]
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