Nepal’s latest goddess is a six-year-old named Shreeya. She has “eyelashes like a cow” and “a voice as soft and clear as a duck.” Her aides add that she is “fond of biscuits and rice.” She will be isolated in a house and worshiped “until the onset of . . . . Continue Reading »
Joe Carter provides a gentlemanly defense of Sarah Palin’s credentials right here at Culture11. He’s right to point out that her performance on one television show, especially one that has deep reserves of ideological contempt for her and anyone like her, is less than . . . . Continue Reading »
In her column yesterday, Washington Post ‘s Ruth Marcus argues for why having Sarah Palin in high public office is a “terrifying prospect.” Marcus’s specific complaint is that Palin, in her interview with Katie Couric, said that the way she has understood the world is not . . . . Continue Reading »
Why Dusty the retired cowboy continues to be PETA’s public enemy number one:When prodigies go to medical . . . . Continue Reading »
He’s sponsoring this bill entreating President Bush to pardon heavyweight champ Jack Johnson, nearly a century after Johnson’s racially-motivated conviction under the Mann Act and sixty-two years after his death. A similar bill passed by voice vote in the House on Friday. A five-minute . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday, I read this article covering of an organization dedicated to give comfort to mothers and families mourning the death of a newborn. It’s a remarkably moving story: A white rose hanging outside the doorway tells nurses that the family in this one room of the maternity ward at Inova . . . . Continue Reading »
Readers of SHS will recall the tragic tale of Haleigh Poutre, beaten nearly to death by her adoptive parents and consigned quickly to death by dehydration by doctors who swore she would never awaken only ten days post injury, the Department of Social Services that decided her life was thus of too . . . . Continue Reading »
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