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Eric Scheske

NYT on Narnia

Pretty good feature piece at NYT about LWW and Lewis [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/13/movies/13narnia.html?pagewanted=1&incamp=article_popular] , though I have two quibbles: > [T]here are some Hollywood observers who seem to believe that there is a good reason Lewis is

Cloning Humans = Dehumanized

From Secondhand Smoke [http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2005/11/trouble-in-threapeutic-cloning.html]: > One of the big issues that causes many feminists to oppose therapeutic human cloning is the distinct possibility that women, particularly the most destitute women, will be exploited for their eggs. . . > When S.

Historical Miniature: Johnson's Dictionary

It's not often you get Samuel Johnson in the MSM. This was great to see [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/10/AR2005111001663.html] : > Except on those rare occasions when new editions of existing dictionaries are issued -- the Oxford English Dictionary , Webster'

Planned Parenthood Stoops Even Lower

> Planned Parenthood has a new marketing strategy for their abortion services: the cross of Jesus. According to a report in the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader [http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/13138780.htm?source=rss&channel=kentucky_news] , Planned Parenthood's national chaplain, United Methodist Ignacio

Dilbert on ID

Scott Adams (the Dilbert guy) posts thoughts about Intelligent Design v. Darwinism. He sides with the Darwinists, but he's fascinated that the I.D. people have good points and that the Darwinists' arguments aren't persuasive. Link [http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/]. Excerpts: > I've

Ships in the Night

A columnist at WaPo weighs in on the stem cell research question [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/11/AR2005111101634.html] . The writer is upset that scientists are coming up with bizarre ways to obtain embryonic stem cells that dont' run afoul of religious or

Defiling Danny Boy

As Ireland's economy booms, the Catholic Church is already losing the souls of its members. According to a NYT report this morning [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/13/international/europe/13ireland.html?pagewanted=1&hp] , things could get a lot worse for the world's

Something for Sunday Morning

> It has been said a hundred times and we must keep saying it: grace does not destroy nature; it fertilizes and elevates nature. No sort of man is more sensible than a saint. Henri Gheon, St. Martin of Tours When you consider the administrative incompetence found in many parts

Thrash the Christians

Yeah, those Muslim Frog riots were an aberration. These folks will assimilate just fine into European culture without tearing it down first. The homosexuals will humbly accept the Vatican's statement on homosexuality, Cindy Crawford finds me handsome, and the Detroit Lions will win this season's Superbowl.

The Land of Cold and Queers

Just when I thought Canada couldn't get any more demented: > The Ontario government has been ordered to cover the costs of sexual reassignment surgery for three transsexuals left stranded when the previous Tory government delisted the service in 1998. > In an interim ruling, the Human Rights