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Are You Pro-Life? Yes, I'm For Everything That's Good.

"Pro-life" means you're against murder. Can we keep that simple premise in mind? I started thinking about this yesterday when I stumbled across this post at Vox Nova [http://vox-nova.com/2008/03/10/vetoes-of-evil/] that basically says water boarding and sticking scissors in the back

Tuesday Trifles

I haven't ran anything about William F. Buckley's death, mostly because many others were doing so far better than I could. For some reason, though, I particularly liked John Zmirak's tribute at Taki's Top Drawer [http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_

Planned Parenthood to Golf to Stabbing

I didn't sleep well last night, so I woke up in a bad mood. I read a news story about Planned Parenthood's promotion of pornography [http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=11904] to teenagers, and figured, "I'm in a bad mood already,

Tuesday Quick Hits

For extra credit, who can name for me Cheech and Chong's seven movies [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheech_and_Chong#Filmography]? > Oaksterdam University prepares people for jobs in California's thriving medical marijuana industry. For $200 and the cost of two required textbooks, students learn

Quick-Hitting Eudemon

Croup girl (Tess, 2), flu girl (Abbie, 13), and Bad-Dream Girl (Meg, 6). The nights have been longish . . . for my wife. I've been sleeping fairly well. __________ And it's just a coincidence that this attitude shift comes on the heels of the rebate announcement: Growing confidence in

Saturday Stuff

The illness lingers, but I think it's mostly over. I'm actually going to try to exercise today. Nothing too rigorous. Maybe three miles on the stationary bike, or maybe some light weightlifting, or maybe just a couple of groans thinking about it. We'll see.

Brews You Can Use and Other

Beer stimulus package: $1,200 per couple, plus $300 per kid. My rebate: $3,300.00. Earlier versions of the bill capped the number of child rebates at three (which makes no sense; if they're giving child credits because people with kids have more expenses, why cap it

Divorcing Gays

"One of the Benefits of Marriage is Divorce [http://timothyjones.typepad.com/old_world_swine/2008/01/one-of-the-bene.html]." That's the theme of this WaPo article [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22467049/] about the problems of getting divorced if you're gay. The article

Tuesday Trifles

Mass killers are atheists? That's what this popular and insightful blogger has observed [http://voxday.blogspot.com/2007/12/atheist-killers.html]: > Large-scale murder or small-scale slaughter, it's simply amazing how often these killers turn out to be explicit atheists, especially given the fact that they

Pullman and Other Items from The Atlantic

The December issue of The Atlantic Monthly has a feature piece about The Golden Compass [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200712/religious-movies]. Summary: Pullman's books are rabidly anti-Christian (the dark and murderous institution that pursues the protagonist is "the Magisterium"--subtle stuff), but Hollywood bent