After reading David B. Hart’s essay on baseball, A Perfect Game , Adam Omelianchuk attended a game—and remembered the game is less than perfect than described : There was much to be thankful for and Hart’s mediations swept over me as if the perfect Platonic Forms were bleeding . . . . Continue Reading »
This is potentially insidious. Not the despairing man with ALS who wants to be killed for his organs, but the apparent reaction of an organ non profit representative who seems to support the idea. From the story:A west Cherokee County man wants to end his life so he might be able to . . . . Continue Reading »
The mystery novelist P. D. James is often described as a Christian, but a Daily Telegraph profile says of her: On that delicate subject [death], James breezily says, she doesn’t know whether there is an afterlife or not. ‘But no doubt I’ll find out one way or the other.’ Though . . . . Continue Reading »
This is beyond comprehension. Plans are apparently afoot to gut NHS services and more strictly ration care. From the story:An investigation by The Sunday Telegraph has uncovered widespread cuts planned across the NHS, many of which have already been agreed by senior health service officials. . . . . Continue Reading »
A recent poll found that forty percent of evangelical leaders said they ” socially drink alcohol .” Science has now discovered why the other sixty percent are teetotalers: they’re busy praying . A recent study supports an interesting approach to curbing alcohol consumption: . . . . Continue Reading »
At ThinkProgress, the website of the liberal Center for American Progress Action Fund, Matthew Yglesias made an eyebrow-raising assertion about America’s founding principles: The United States was founded fairly explicitly on a set of liberal ideals—pragmatic egalitarian cosmopolitan . . . . Continue Reading »
In James Davison Hunter’s To Change the World, Stanley Hauerwas is quoted as follows:It is alleged that by definition a pacifist must withdraw from political involvement. ...I refuse to accept such a characterization because it implies that all politics is finally but a cover for violence. . . . . Continue Reading »
Insanity. The Controlled Substances Act—a federal law—states explicitly that marijuana has no medicinal uses. It is therefore outlawed for every purpose throughout the USA.Yet, the Veteran’s Adm., part of the federal government, is now going to allow patients to use MM in . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Facebook as a Nation-State The world’s largest social network announced that it had reached 500m members on Wednesday July 21st. If Facebook were a physical nation, it would now be the third-most populous on earth. And if the service continues to grow as rapidly as in the three months to . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday I posted some thoughts about Byron Williams, a wannabe Right Wing revolutionary, pointing out that a false rhetorical urgency in political discourse is likely to contribute to the unbalanced thoughts of people like Williams. I want to clarify the obvious. In no way should we pin the blame . . . . Continue Reading »
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