The crazy lady strikes again for Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Yesterday, I heard a story on WGN-TV's noon news, which piqued my interest. It was about the disparate treatment of black and white drug addicts. Although blacks represent only about 15% of the general population, blacks are far more likely to suffer legal consequences for drug-related offenses (such as possession or possession with intent to sell). In fact, many of the black people in prison right now are incarcerated for nonviolent drug offenses. In addition, 90% of the women in prison for... Sign in to see full entry.

Officials at St. Louis' City Museum's World Aquarium are planning an exhibit of two-headed animals. From my readings of the news story on AOL (accessible through http://news.aol.com/strange ), I've been led to believe that these two-headed animals in this exhibit will all be reptiles, mostly snakes, with a few two-headed turtles thrown in for good measure. I have to admit that this sounds to me like an interesting exhibit. Most of the two-headed reptiles come from the aquarium's current... Sign in to see full entry.

I realize that I committed a major gaffe the other day when I was talking about the concept of deathbed conversions. (I may have been talking about this concept in From Death Into Life; I forget exactly which blog contains this discussion.) In that particular blog entry, I mentioned by implication that I thought many fundamentalist Protestants were misguided when they failed to acknowledge the possibility that a person of genuine faith can "fall away" on his or her deathbed, just as one can... Sign in to see full entry.