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by Ryan Sayre PatricoHappiness really is contagious! . . . . Continue Reading »
Happiness really is contagious! . . . . Continue Reading »
To the younger First Things readers, especially the men: If you are tempted to get your wife, or fiancée, or girlfriend something “practical” for Christmas, you probably should pause and take a look at this rather funny video on how to stay out of the doghouse. While . . . . Continue Reading »
My good pal Ralph Nader often has complained of the “revolving door” between government regulators and legislators and the big corporations that are subject to regulation, giving the corporations, in his view (to which I subscribe), undue influence over their own oversite.But the same . . . . Continue Reading »
This blog doesn’t deal with global warming per se, but it does worry about the corrupting influences on science and media exerted by ideology. Mostly, we have deconstructed this problem in the area of biotechnology. But the corruption has permeated the physical sciences, too, most particularly . . . . Continue Reading »
A CA reader passes along this linkan online search engine , hosted by SF Gate and the San Francisco Chronicle , which enables readers, at the click of a mouse, to find donors for and against CA’s gay-marriage ban. It’s a tidy piece of technology in many ways, compiling information . . . . Continue Reading »
On Wednesday, Archbishop George H. Niederauer of San Fransisco issued his first extensive statement on the passage of Proposition 8 in California: Some would say that, in light of the separation of church and state, churches should remain silent about any political matter. However, religious . . . . Continue Reading »
Basically I’m a country boy, but the city sure has its merits . . . . . Continue Reading »
As Ryan Anderson and Joseph Bottum discussed in the November issue (subscription required), embryonic stem cells have been flaunted, for the past decade, as the key to unlocking the miracle cure, the source of the fountain of youth. But with last year’s stem-cell breakthroughs, scientists (if . . . . Continue Reading »
From the “All Things to All People Department,” I give you the Paschal Mystery Machine . . . . . Continue Reading »
In ” A Church for the Obamas ” Sally Quinn thinks the president-elect and his family should attend Washington National Cathedral. “Washington National Cathedral,” declares Quinn, “transcends politics and even the separation of religions. Though nominally an Episcopal . . . . Continue Reading »