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Two bits in the Telegraph today which were quite interesting. Charles Moore expressing a similar view to Sibling Chatty on arrogant atheists (I've noticed you never see C.M and S.C. together, but no, surely not...):

http://tinyurl.com/2uysup

and an article on U.S. home schooling and its association with creationism.

http://tinyurl.com/2p6d33

edit: fixed spelling

http://tinyurl.com/3cctyb

Evil atheist grin...

(Only kidding. I know that's unToadfish, and I don't approve,  but it's an interesting example of the way two of the English-speaking peoples have headed off in different directions).

Lots of good stuff http://www.moneysavingexpert.com

and in his book

The Money Diet

But lots of the finance stuff (ISAs,SIPPs, council tax etc) and the switching utilities stuff may be UK specific.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6261885.stm

At the risk of upsetting Goat by talking about "The Wrong Bragg" again, todays BBC Radio 4 "In our Time" with Melvyn Bragg had an absolutely fascinating history of Hell. Amongst other things it described how it went from a place of interminable boredom, through an icy stage, and also what the current image of fire owes to Jerusalem's municipal rubbish dump.

It's accessible through the usual BBC listen-again route. Or via:

http://www.bbc.co.uk//radio4/history/inourtime/index.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime.shtml

(Hope the links work outside the UK; sometimes there are copyright reasons why they are blocked).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6179911.stm

Seeing as Goat News has fallen silent it falls to me to pass on this interesting take on the phrase "Drunk as a lord":

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/12/11/nbishop11.xml

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6190772.stm

It seems the fate of Limbo hangs in the balance...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5406552.stm

Easy enough this one. Headlines you are not likely to see. I'll start us off.

"George Michael spends quiet evening at home with stamp collection."

The following link about Kink Friedman's campaign for Texas governor probably isn't news for Americans. I thought Sibling Chatty might be amused that his fame has spread abroad though.

http://tinyurl.com/qtojd

Now here's a potentially tricky question for Toadfish. What are the limits of religious tolerance when faced with the intolerant? For example, someone who believes:

Quote"[Allah] created the UK: it doesn't belong to you, or to the Queen, or to the Government, but to Allah. He has put us on earth to implement Sharia law."

For more details see http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/09/24/do2405.xml

(I don't necessarily agree with the conclusions of that opinion piece by the way).

What is the correct atitude? Is it any different to the one we should take to Christian fundamentalists?