I’m late getting to it, but the Wall Street Journal /John McCain comparison of the most strident Tea Party affiliated politicians to hobbits just doesn’t work. The worst that can reasonably be said about the most recalcitrant of the Tea Party-affiliated congressmen, is that they . . . . Continue Reading »
Amidst commentary on the passing of evangelical leader John Stott has been the occasional suggestion that Stott represented the propositionalist, logic-driven, “modern” evangelicalism of the past. For better or for worse, younger evangelicals today, on the other hand, tend to prefer . . . . Continue Reading »
Secondhand Smokette has a terrific column out in today’s San Francisco Chronicle reviewing the book Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls by Mara Hvistendahl. Hvistendahl, no pro lifer, demonstrates that because of sex selection abortion, there are 160 million fewer women and . . . . Continue Reading »
George Will , in reflecting on the nature of the American regime, notices that Michele Bachmann reads von Mises at the beach (well, better than Rand by far) and that the young, raised on the huge and unregulated menu of choice that is the internet, are basically libertarians. The libertarians, as . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, I suppose one should be grateful that a mainstream-media outlet like CNN is interested in what Christians believe over and above the desire to either mock or marginalize. But this video , which was featured as part of a nicely designed CNN.com homepage, does more harm than good, I think. At . . . . Continue Reading »
The attacks against human exceptionalism are many and varied, mostly coming out of what is sometimes called the Liberal Intellegentsia. Explicit case in point by the founder of “Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals,” professor emeritus (of course!) Mark Bekoff. Writing . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s my contribution to the Weil dimension of Grant studies in response to Jason Hanson’s just criticism in the thread below. And now that the trauma is over (I’m no saint or hero) I can announce that yesterday was my 60th birthday. . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s true, he did! Dmitry Bibikow of Harare, Zimbabwe, and originally of Voronezh, has been wheelchair-bound since a climbing accident, which is a problem because his apartment is on the fifth floor. The local council still hadn’t installed a promised elevator after six years, so he . . . . Continue Reading »
It has come to my attention that some SHSers might be interested in following me on Twitter. Mostly,I use it to Tweet SHS posts, but I also, from time to time, comment on matters irrelevant here, which I find myself doing more often lately. My Tweet handle is “forcedexit” for anyone so . . . . Continue Reading »
This is anecdotal, but worth retelling. A trustworthy FOSHS (Friend of Secondhand Smoke) sent me this email about what happened when his 4-year-old nephew saw some people digging with shovels in the mountains:Just got back from camping up at Donner Lake with my extended family. We . . . . Continue Reading »
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