- Just after 89% of the people of Venice voted to separate from the Republic of Italy to form their own state, residents of the island of Sardinia seem posed to vote to join Switzerland.
- The Egyptian government has sentenced 529 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to death for taking part in the protests in support of Morsi. I don't expect this will end well.
- In the United Kingdom, aborted babies are being used to heat hospitals.
- Indiana has now become the first state to withdraw from the Common Core standard. One hopes others will soon follow.
- The observatory of the Holy See will soon host a conference for parish educators on the relationship between faith and astronomy.
- The Negrito, a 300-year old pirate ship captained by Black Eye Dan (I've never heard of him, either), has been found in the Mississippi River near St. Louis. And I thought there were only mutant catfish in those waters.
No comments:
Post a Comment