It’s not the ugliest church in the world, Saints Peter and Paul in Pierre, South Dakota:which we saw this weekend, while visiting my grandmother in Pierre.Then again, it’s not the prettiest church, either, and every time we drive by, my wife asks how come only St. Peter gets a statue . . . . Continue Reading »
As President Obama pretends (weakly) that his health care reform plans won’t involve health care rationing, bioethicists are chomping at the bit to see it instituted. Last Sunday, Peter Singer had a long apology for health care rationing in the NYT Magazine . Now, Dan Brock urges rationing . . . . Continue Reading »
We left our South Dakota refuge in the Black Hills to venture out on the prairie, driving across to Pierre this weekend to visit my grandmother. The rain has been good this year, and the plains have a kind of austere beauty that tugs a little at my memories: But then I remember how hard life is on . . . . Continue Reading »
I used to be a supporter of a Canadian style single payer health care plan for the USA. Then, I began spending time in Canadia and found out it doesn’t work well at all. This ad is effective, because from what I have seen, it is true.The woman’s name is Shona Holmes. She is suing . . . . Continue Reading »
The new issue of Poetry Magazine is dedicated to two new “movements” in American poetry: Flarf and Conceptual Writing. I use quotation marks around the word movements because I think the word gimmick is more accurate. Unfortunately, I can’t use the word gimmick. You see, . . . . Continue Reading »
Global warming may or may not exist—I suspect not, at least not of the earth-flooding-bake-caused-by-us kind—but the gas emissions from its advocates among the hyper-elites show that the real game afoot is massive income redistribution in the name of science. Latest example . . . . Continue Reading »
Is the Catholicism—indeed, any religiosity—in the current generation of young adults rediscovered by the young rather than a gift from the old? I was thinking again this morning about Bob Miola’s beautiful essay (subscription required) about the entrance of first one and then a . . . . Continue Reading »
The last line of defense for some suicidal people is the dedicated mental health professional committed to helping their patient stay alive through profound darkness and pain. But a subversive movement within psychiatry, psychology, and social work holds that only “irrational” suicides . . . . Continue Reading »
What’s more harmful to the general public than the sex, violence, and general debauchery that pervades YouTube? Apparently, a twenty-year-old woman exposing Planned Parenthood’s bad habit of covering up statutory rape . . . . . Continue Reading »
Paul Howard at City Journal points out that improving the quality of healthcare, while a noble and worthwhile goal, won’t save anyone any money, so we shouldn’t pretend that it will: President Obama has made many promises about his health-reform agenda, but none looms larger than: . . . . Continue Reading »
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