A French “peace
activist”
has been detained and faces deportation, after fraudulently claiming to
be walking around the world for peace, in order to beg for free food. In
fact, he was hitch-hiking.
The ABC’s unexpected
headline to this story:
Police nab
food-mooching hitchhike-monkey
Forbidden Treasure
I’m a fan of
Tim Blair. I’m told he’s now
blogging at Blogs of War. Every
time I go there I get this message:
Forbidden
You don’t have
permission to access / on this server.
Additionally, a 403
Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to
handle the request.
Why?
Buy in Gloom, Sell
in Boom
A stock market adage
tells us to buy on the rumour, sell on the fact. Thus, we should buy
military-related stocks in the lead-up to war, and then sell (at a profit)
when war actually begins.
Am I right in my
suspicion that Christian blogs are now being “sold off”? Christian bloggers
had plenty to say – on the morality of war – in the build-up. But now the
war has begun, and I think that web surfers probably want news, not ethics.
My website traffic
grew substantially this year, thanks especially to
these
three
pages. But
since the war began I am noticing a (small) decline in visitor numbers.
What’s the experience
of other Christian bloggers?
(But if you’re still
looking for Christian answers, check out
this site.)
More Christian
Answers on War?
Why aren’t publishers
Eerdmans making more of a splash with their new title “Warriors
of the Lord”?
The great religious
orders of Christianity - the Benedictines, the Dominicans, the Franciscans,
the Jesuits - are well known for their monasteries, their learning, and
their missions around the world. But in the Middle Ages and beyond, there
was another kind of religious order whose profession it was to bear arms in
defence of Christendom. This lavishly illustrated work tells the
extraordinary story of the military orders of the Church.
I haven’t seen the
book, but it appears to be excellent. It may even contain some more
Christian answers on war.
Uncommon
Commonsense
War is crowding out
even the kind of horror news that would normally be spread over the front
pages of the newspapers. The Wall Street Journal notes that editors
don’t know how to handle the SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome)
crisis.
Some
uncommon commonsense on the disease in The Australian from
Peter Curson
Of course, the most
important ingredient has been human behaviour. Changes in sexual behaviour,
the increasing use of drugs, the pursuit of "pure and natural" foodstuffs,
the migration to large cities, holidaying in the Amazon basin, and the
increasing number of young children in daycare – all these factors have
provided an environment conducive to the spread and emergence of infections.
April 4th, 2003
