On the Guardian ’s language blog , Roz Kaveney—I dare not attempt any further description—complains of the linguistic difficulties in naming transgendered people: As a trans man or woman, you soon notice how many people have what Daffy Duck called ‘pronoun trouble’. No . . . . Continue Reading »
Alternet.org functions as the Mother Jones of the internet, providing Lefties with Lefty content. Fair enough. But a recent article by Tana Geneva that gives a brief overview of the political and cultural view of Nevada GOP senate nominee Sharron Angle reflects an unfortunate tendency on the Left, . . . . Continue Reading »
Now this really drives me nuts. There is certainly nothing wrong with having safe havens for wildlife. They are generally good things. But if our devotion to animals risks human life, we have gone way overboard. And that appears to be behind the so far unsuccessful efforts to . . . . Continue Reading »
Christopher Barnekov, director of Scandinavia House in Fort Wayne, Indiana, sends a report on a new Swedish law restricting home schooling and thereby restricting religious freedom as well. He asks that I mention that this is “first look at a very complex development” and based on . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . is endlessly fascinating. And so I enjoyed Mr. Pomocon’s post below and the responses to it. Here are some random comments that are meant to be provocative in the armchair speculation kind of way: 1. Lincoln could have avoided the war had that been his highest objective. 2. The war was . . . . Continue Reading »
The Denver Post has an illuminating article on the work of Wycliffe Bible Translators : Protestant translators expect to have the Bible — or at least some of it — written in every one of the world’s 6,909 spoken languages. “We’re in the greatest period of acceleration in . . . . Continue Reading »
From You’ll Never Be Alone , an article on touring retirement communities: Meanwhile, the job of asking about construction, bylaws, monthly fees, and whether two people who never played golf would still be paying for the upkeep on a championship course fell to me. Only once did I come up with . . . . Continue Reading »
“Although the practical effect will be negligible, the [new] .XXX domain is a potent symbol and cultural marker for our present condition,” writes Joe Carter in today’s “On the Square” article, Virtue in Virtual Gomorrah . He doesn’t stop with the usual lament, . . . . Continue Reading »
“You know, a lot of people feel sorry for him, because he’s so tall and awkward,” said Charles Barkley, about his former 76ers teammate Manute Bol, “But I’ll tell you this—if everyone in the world was a Manute Bol, it’s a world I’d want to live in.” In . . . . Continue Reading »
We have been told by the Davos set, people like Thomas Friedman, that we should be more like China—and then we could build worker friendly green industries on the double time! Of course, China’s near slave labor pool of “migrant workers” helps the country, shall we say, . . . . Continue Reading »
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