Mark Pickup may very well be the finest man I have ever met. He is good, decent, kind, honest even when it really hurts to be honest, and has an iron-willed integrity. He also has a heart of golden mush.Mark was very caught up, as was I, in the terrible tragedy of the dehydration death . . . . Continue Reading »
I have been very gratified to have been asked repeatedly when my podcast, What It Means to Be Human, will be back. I had to suspend these recordings for awhile because of work load and then a tech meltdown. Whew. But, I am happy to be back streaming and hope to have few . . . . Continue Reading »
Euthanasia deaths are going up in Belgium, now up to about 2% of all deaths in Flanders. From the story:Cases of euthanasia in Belgium’s Flanders region soared to nearly 2 percent of all deaths in 2007 after the country legalized the practice a few years earlier, a medical study has . . . . Continue Reading »
RequiemCambridge, September 2001A payload of people phoning home:their ghost voices linger, caught on tapes,rewound, rewound, as if listening could summon themback into themselves. The last hope’ssupplanted now with clinging to a missedcall, replaying it, imagining words —but what? . . . . Continue Reading »
In ” No Way to Treat a President ” Eugene Robinson has taken to the op-ed pages of the Washington Post to denounce the incivility of President Obama’s congressional opposition, especially Representative Joseph Wilson’s now infamous “you lie,” outburst the other . . . . Continue Reading »
My children, Andrew and Grace, are now ages 7 and 4. According to my wife, they have been prime candidates for a trip to Disney World for some time now. I have held back because I tend not to be enthusiastic about vacations for reasons other than visiting family (because that’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Horrible news : Local officials and state police are confirming that a pro-life advocate was shot and killed outside a high school in this Michigan town. The person, who is described as well-known but whose identity has not been released, was shot multiple times while protesting abortion outside . . . . Continue Reading »
Talk about lying about the bill: President Obama and the Democrats have repeatedly assured the country that Obamacare would not cover abortion and that, in any event, the Hyde Amendment would prevent federal funding. Almost surely wrong on the first point and absolutely wrong . . . . Continue Reading »
A pro life activist who routinely held up photos of aborted fetuses as a form of protest has been repeatedly shot and murdered. From the story:OWOSSO, Michigan — State police at the Corunna post have confirmed a well-known anti-abortion activist was shot multiple times and killed this morning . . . . Continue Reading »
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