The only way universal health care will have any chance of working financially is if it is modest, covering the basics and leaving the optionals to people’s own private decision making and budgets. But the Left isn’t about freedom, it is about the raw exercise of power, hence, . . . . Continue Reading »
Or, instead of poets , we could just stick with The Onion . . . . . Continue Reading »
Hire more poets : Last week, Israel’s oldest newspaper, Haaretz , took a one-off chance, temporarily replacing its workaday reporters with 31 of the country’s leading poets and authors. The writers, as writers do, ran amok. They filed epic front-page news reports on daily life in the . . . . Continue Reading »
LifeSiteNews.com profiles Luhra Tivis , a former employee of the late-term abortionist George Tiller, whose experiences working at his facility drove her into a life of pro-life activism. Tivis had no hand in the performance of the abortions themselves—rather, she was assigned the task of . . . . Continue Reading »
In many ways, I share Joe’s antipathy toward James Joyce’s Ulysses . But I must confess to having something of a love-hate relationship with Joyce’s novel, which relates in tedious detail a day in the life of the city of Dublin and its environs. On the one . . . . Continue Reading »
A little while ago I wrote here at SHS decrying amoral Trade reviews given to a new book called Larry’s Kidney, in which a man and his Cousin Larry go to China for a little biological colonialism to buy the aforementioned Larry a kidney—no doubt obtained from killing a prisoner (perhaps . . . . Continue Reading »
Gymnast Shawn Johnson Put To Sleep After Breaking . . . . Continue Reading »
About two years ago I wrote a piece for First Things about the perils to human exceptionalism. It must have been a good piece, because it was copied verbatim and published today over at a site called Living Text of Sociology, under what appears to be the name of one Thad Reisen Edison. At the . . . . Continue Reading »
In Jasper Fforde’s charming alternate history The Eyre Affair , England in the 1980s is a place where hardcore literature fans change their name to John Milton, roving gangs of surrealists rumble with French impressionists, and “Baconians” go door-to-door like Jehovah . . . . Continue Reading »
From the New Liturgical Movement comes the news that ten sisters in an Anglican convent in Baltimore will be received into the Catholic Church, with two of their fellow sisters remaining Anglican. The reaction of many upon hearing such news is probably, “So who are these Anglicans with their . . . . Continue Reading »
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