Not that all of this is either explicitly religious or — any of it — kitschy; it’s just what there is to write about today, while I wait for the next person to send in some oddity or other. The Five- and Six-Year-Olds (who get read aloud to together): Secret Water by Arthur . . . . Continue Reading »
(Updated June 22) Last week’s demonstrations do not appear to have shaken the resolve of Ayatollah Khameini and the Iranian establishment, much less overthrown the Islamic Republic. Those who hoped for a Persian Spring probably will go home disappointed. In the excitement of the mass . . . . Continue Reading »
Freddie responds to my tweet on Iran, solidarity, and fashion: I could imagine that James’s refusal to show solidarity with the protesters (or at least his discomfort in the same) is the product of apathy or fear of the other. I think, applied generally and not specifically, that’s a . . . . Continue Reading »
Love, I think, is a primary component in the metaleptic phenomenon of being and Eternal Being within the tension of existence. It is the experiential insight that gives succor to man’s deformed yearning (sehnsucht) for perfection in life, and it reveals to us that “God can not be . . . . Continue Reading »
Astute observations and important reflections by James, Will, and Ivan just below nourish my ongoing reflections on the meaning of reason’s responsibility today. The left’s appeals to “scientific” or otherwise purely “rationalist” reason appear more and more febrile . . . . Continue Reading »
Steve Sailer suggests that booze works wonders: Perhaps alcohol enables one individual to display a wider range of personalities than can be achieved through solely genetic means, thus allowing personalities to evolve farther in directions suitable for making a living, while still allowing people . . . . Continue Reading »
Assisted suicide advocates can be so disingenuous. A woman in the UK with multiple sclerosis committed suicide the Derek Humphry way—and that death is being used by assisted suicide advocates to promote legalization of assisted suicide for the terminally ill. Also notice how the argument is . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s about time: Other than the disability rights movement and Nat Hentoff, it seems to me that the Left has been not only supine in the face of the oncoming “duty to die,” but its enablers. Maybe the worm is beginning to turn. Mickey Kaus at Slate believes—silly . . . . Continue Reading »
On the Discovery Institute website , John G. West gives a three-part response to some things I said on this blog . In the first part he says: “Barr claims that ‘[w]hen scientists say that certain things in nature are random, this does mean that Nature is in a certain sense blind; it does . . . . Continue Reading »
Revenge! It turns out that we “husky,” as it was called tactfully when I was a kid, may live longer than thin people. From the story:Health experts have long warned of the risk of obesity, but a new Japanese study warns that being very skinny is even more dangerous, and that . . . . Continue Reading »
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