Tom Stoppard looks back on the student protests of 1968 and sees that despite its problems, the West wasn’t so bad after all: I was as aware as most people were that not everything in the gardens of the West was lovely and of course we didn’t know - one never knows - the half of it. But . . . . Continue Reading »
Spengler wrote in this space on Monday about how, at the Easter Vigil at St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Benedict XVI baptized and received into the Catholic Church Magdi Allam, an Egyptian-born author and critic of Islamic fundamentalism. Just last week, Osama bin Laden had rather absurdly . . . . Continue Reading »
So Brother Mikhail ‘s supposed conversion turns out to be piffle . Gorbachev remains an atheist. As it happens, his visit to the Sacro Convento friary was the result of his poor Italian. “I asked the cab driver to take me to a Kentucky Fried Chicken,” Gorbachev told some . . . . Continue Reading »
There has been some twitter about a “man” who has become pregnant. Assuming the story is genuine, and I have my doubts, the man isn’t a man. Biologically, she’s a transgendered woman who became a man under the law and is married as a man under the law. Because his wife has . . . . Continue Reading »
Nebraska has easily passed into law a ban on any state funding of human cloning research and banning any state facility from doing human SCNT. From the story:The measure prohibits the use of state money or facilities for creating or destroying embryos for stem cell research using a technique . . . . Continue Reading »
Under intense pressure from the Catholic Church and others, Prime Minister Gordon Brown is allowing a free vote on the notorious embryo bill, that we first discussed the here at SHS a few days ago. From the story: Mr Brown agreed to let Labour MPs vote according to—conscience, rather than the . . . . Continue Reading »
The Crocs get the hang of health benefits American . . . . Continue Reading »
Jody Bottum referred to the old story of the Holy Cross alumni magazine that showed an FBI agent leading away in handcuffs a priest at an anti-Vietnam protest—with both identified by their graduation years from the school. He treated the story as possibly apocryphal, but it is, in fact, true. . . . . Continue Reading »
A good line from Megan McArdle of The Atlantic Monthly regarding a piece in the New York Times which quotes people happy about the potential decline of New York’s real estate market: This is perhaps why I have so little sympathy for the princes of schadenfreude in this New York Times article . . . . Continue Reading »
This, ladies and gentlemen, could be the Official Papal Skateboard. I wish I could just leave it at that, but you probably want to know exactly how the papacy will, after 2,000 years, finally get its own board. Some time last week, I saw that the Archdiocese of New York was having a contest for . . . . Continue Reading »
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