Yoda you seek? Jedi knight you think you are? Icthus on car you want not? In luck you are today.May the Force be with your wedding reception. Still looking for a lightsaber to cut the cake with . . . Meanwhile, Cake Wrecks has your number, O Jedi bride. Alternatively, make the cake yourself. And . . . . Continue Reading »
Perhaps I was raised in an overly-Confucian manner, but Conor Friedersdorf’s latest sets my head a-buzzing with questions and my stomach a-churning with unease. Of course, insofar as an administration must work as a team toward common ends, its employees should be loyal so long as they are . . . . Continue Reading »
Assisted suicide advocates are cultural imperialists who, as they pretend they only want a “limited” change in law and culture, actually seek to widen and expand the euthanasia/assisted suicide license through the use of loose definitions and broadly worded . . . . Continue Reading »
President Obama is looking worse and worse. The combination of a terrible economy and a terrible foreign policy outlook ought to sink him, provided the Republicans can find a competent candidate. Obama never would have been elected in the first place if only John McCain had still been alive. . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . of Charlotte, North Carolina, this weekend, do be sure to stop by the Eucharistic Congress, sponsored by the Catholic Diocese of Charlotte. If you happen to be in the neighborhood of Uptown Charlotte around nine on Saturday morning, you’ll hardly be able to miss it. Here’s a series . . . . Continue Reading »
The headline from the front page of yesterday’s Washington Post reads ” Less Peril for Civilians, but More for Troops .” The opening paragraphs summarize the issue: Concern is rising in Congress and among military families over a sharp increase in U.S. troop deaths in Afghanistan . . . . Continue Reading »
Recently I gave a talk at the Christian Web Conference in which I argued that we often confuse clarity with profundity. I noted that one of Ernest Hemingway’s most profound stories was not only clear, but short enough to fit on Twitter: For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn. Hemingway is said to . . . . Continue Reading »
President Obama made a very unfortunate—but telling—analogy last month, comparing the public option in health care to the Post Office competing with Fed Ex and UPS. I commented on the problems with that argument from the pro Obamacare perspective at the time.The metaphor continues to cut . . . . Continue Reading »
In a review of her book Your Spirits Walk Beside Us: The Politics of Black Religion , Curtis J. Evans notes how Barbara Savage demonstrates that “the ‘nexus between black religion and politics’ has necessarily been a strained one.” First, she notes that the choices that . . . . Continue Reading »
My thesis, which has yet to be effectively rebutted, is that Big Biotech and the Bioethics Establishment want zero meaningful ethical parameters to be placed permanently around its stem cell/cloning/genetic engineering enterprise. I was in a debate last week at Biola University against . . . . Continue Reading »
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