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Both on the Dreamland program and as a special interview available in the last slot on Unknowncountry.com’s Windows Media Player (reached by clicking “Listen Now” on the right side of our masthead), Whitley interviews Dave Louthan, the man who actually slaughtered the mad cow that was found last December. Dave is now a man with a mission because, as reported by the New York Times, he says that the USDA is mishandling the mad cow problem and we are in serious trouble. This is a not-to-be-missed interview. Because we have no advertisers to tell us what to do, Dave can hit harder on Dreamland than he has anywhere else from the New York Times to the dozens of talk shows he’s been on. This is the most revealing interview he has given!
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If homosexuality is an unnatural choice, how come so many animals are gay? Gay advocates say if homosexual behavior occurs in animals, it must be natural, and therefore gays should have the same civil rights as heterosexuals. Animal researcher Frans de Waal says, “There has been a certain cultural shyness about admitting it.”

Dinitia Smith writes in the February 7 New York Times about two gay penguins at the Central Park Zoo in Manhattan, who have been inseparable for six years. Both have rejected female companionship, and females aren’t turned on by them, either.
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Scientists are trying to figure out why some people loyal mates for life while others can’t commit. Neuroscientist Gareth Leng says it’s all because of oxytocin. Leng says the hormone works by “changing the wiring” of billions of brain circuits, opening up new patterns of interaction between nerve cells. Large amounts of it are released into the bran during sexual activity, creating new brain pathways that cause you to bond with your partner. People who have fewer of the special brain receptors that take up the oxytocin may have trouble making a permanent commitment to a partner.
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Fires have been breaking out spontaneously on the island of Sicily recently, and in 1990, the same thing happened near Venice. Twenty years ago, similar fires in Italy were blamed on the supernatural powers of a woman who was put in jail for starting them.

While the U.S. has its history of persecuting witches in Salem, Massachusetts, it’s hard to believe that someone could be put in jail for practicing witchcraft in a developed country as late as 1982, but that’s what happened to Carole Compton. Tracey Lawson writes in The Scotsman that she was accused of using pyrokinesis to start fires in the homes where she worked as a nanny.
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