The blog Surfeited with Dainties smartly picks up the various commentators who have recently been expressing libertarian dismay with the libertarian Ron Paul’s opposition to abortion. The blog’s author, Michael Brendan Dougherty, points, for instance, to this extraordinary passage from . . . . Continue Reading »
? So a putative cure for cancer unleashes a deadly virus that wipes out 90 percent of mankind and sets loose a gaggle of vampires to devour whomever’s left. My primary-care physician had to have been a consultant on this thing . . . Has his M.O. written all over it . . . ? How on earth did . . . . Continue Reading »
To all the friends and adversaries of SHS, please accept my heartfelt best wishes for the best of the Season. Sometimes, it can seem that all is strife and madness. But while in many ways we live in the best of times, it is all too easy to forget that it certainly isn’t the worst of times. . . . . Continue Reading »
No toy—and that’s all these video games are—should ever have gruesome as an option. Ah for the days when Uncle Wiggily and Chinese Checkers were all the rage . . . . . . . Continue Reading »
At the risk of sullying First Things with a matter that wouldn’t make the category of Eleventh Things, I was struck by word this week that Jamie Lynn Spears, the sixteen-year-old kid sister of pop tartlet Britney Spears, is pregnant. Jamie Lynn announced the news on Tuesday and the . . . . Continue Reading »
I love the comic strip Pearls Before Swine. Here is the latest strip, which has just enough relevance to what we discuss here at SHS for me to post. . . . . Continue Reading »
The alternative newspapers continue to outshine the MSM in providing basic and in depth journalism: In this story in the LA Weekly, reporter Patrick Range McDonald shows how completely unhinged the animal rights terrorists are becoming in Los Angeles:Antonio Villaraigosa may need to watch his back. . . . . Continue Reading »
The blog Canterbury Tales has this list of the Nine Worthies, broken down into three categories: Pagan, Hebrew, and Christian. Imagine different categories, with more contemporary examples: Atheist George Orwell George Bernard Shaw Bjørk Spiritualist/New Age Edgar Cayce Deepak Chopra . . . . Continue Reading »
The cover story of this week’s New York Times science section asks the question of the nature of the laws of nature. It’s a fascinating article. First we see Paul Davies, a cosmologist at Arizona State University who, on the Times’ editorial page asserted that all of science . . . . Continue Reading »
I cannot stomach PETA’s ideology—views symbolized by the disgusting comic book aimed at kids depicted here—but I sit in awe at its leaders’ propaganda and advocacy skills. They never miss a chance to get their message out. Now, they urge that meat be taxed to reduce global . . . . Continue Reading »
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