This is interesting. A scientific study finds that a more old fashioned approach to romance enhances the chances that relationships will be sustained and satisfying. From the story in Live Science:Delaying sex makes for a more satisfying and stable relationship later on, new research . . . . Continue Reading »
Merrill Matthews at Forbes makes an excellent point about Obamacare undercutting of the rule of objective law and elevating subjective and/or arbitrary standards of control by bureaucrats—a theme I have also pounded like a drum. Recall, for example, Medicare’s new Independent . . . . Continue Reading »
Iran, it seems, is experiencing a textbook case of conflict between the aggressive and absorptive power of the secular state and religious authority. In today’s Financial Times , Najmeh Bozorgmehr reports that Iran’s highest ranking cleric is getting sideways with the officially Islamic . . . . Continue Reading »
Mississippi governor Haley Barbour has issued one of the creepiest statements ever issued by a state government : The Mississippi Parole Board reviewed the sisters’ request for a pardon and recommended that I neither pardon them, nor commute their sentence. At my request, the Parole Board . . . . Continue Reading »
Jonah Goldberg seems to complain that being gay is no longer being transgressive or genuinely countercultural or genuinely bohemian. The gays no longer offer us a genuinely “alternative lifestyle” that stands in contrast to the boring bourgeois family. On MODERN FAMILY, the most boring . . . . Continue Reading »
Max McLean’s one-man show, “ Mark’s Gospel ,” a word-for-word dramatic recitation of the entire Gospel of Mark, is now available online in its entirety. Justin Taylor has collected all sixteen videos in this post . As Taylor notes, “All said, it runs about an hour and a . . . . Continue Reading »
Happy eve of New Year’s Eve! For the occasion, R.R. Reno explains in his On the Square column why he’s never liked New Year’s Eve celebrations and why you shouldn’t either: New Year’s Eve is an essentially pagan holiday of renewal, one that celebrates our collective . . . . Continue Reading »
In France, civil unions are becoming more popular than marriage : Some are divorced and disenchanted with marriage; others are young couples ideologically opposed to marriage, but eager to lighten their tax burdens. Many are lovers not quite ready for old-fashioned matrimony. Whatever their . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the great unexpected pleasures from doing this work has been the development of Secondhand Smokette’s and my close friendship with the novelist Dean Koontz and his wife Gerda—not to mention their late Golden Retriever, Trixie, a truly remarkable dog, and their beloved and very . . . . Continue Reading »
This may seem like a small thing, but the language we use matters. The LA Times has a report out about Tucker Carlson’s opinion regarding what should have been done to Michael Vick for killing and torturing his fighting dogs. In describing Carlson’s opinion—which we . . . . Continue Reading »
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