There's a whole lot of civil unrest going on in Haiti right now (and that's an understatement), so I thought it would be good to put a link in to a story about Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the current leader whom the rebels are attempting to overthrow.

As if having piles of conservative Christians in the United States wasn't bad enough, a Toronto Star story details how they are making footholds in Nunavut, complete with the whole 'the Second Coming is coming' dogma. I just want to refresh everyone's memory on the whole anticipating the second coming thing:

Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.
Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
- Mark 13:30-33

The Economist has come out with an editorial opposing Bush's same sex marriage ban, while also publishing a story about how this issue effects the culture wars in America. The editorial is well worth reading, especially from a fairly right-of-center publication like The Economist. In a little more of a depressing article, they also note a study that shows that less-homogeneous neighborhoods yield better social cohesion.

Finally, a story from the Christian Science Monitor about the rise of sexual-oriented magazines on college campuses. I know that it's easy to be alarmist about this trend, but my feeling is that it's better that people have the information and not get pregnant, get an STD, etc., rather than being all hush-hush about it. Sex is out there everywhere and I don't think this social trend increases it anything but marginally.