As I noted yesterday , over 70 percent of African Americans voted yes on Proposition 8, the California ballot initiative defining marriage as between a man and a woman. The measure passed 52-48. Now, predictably, gay-rights advocates have filed a legal challenge in California’s Supreme Court, . . . . Continue Reading »
A guy walks into a job interview. The interviewer asks him about his qualifications. He says that he wants to be judged on the basis of the interview. He has no qualifications because he has very little experience, but he has been working on his interviewing skills over the past few years. The guy . . . . Continue Reading »
Tomorrow, Billy Graham, a pastor to presidents and preacher to millions, will turn 90: Evangelist Billy Graham, who turns 90 on Friday, is frail from multiple falls and ailments, far from the strapping revivalist who roamed the globe for six decades. Yet before Graham retired in 2005 to his . . . . Continue Reading »
“So if someone were to come up with a catch phrase as simple and vague as ‘Yes, We Can’ . . . ” “Oh, awful. They would have an entire army of extremely energetic, insufferably annoying, mindless pawns at their command.” The Onion analyzes a new gripping problem: . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the most important services that medical professionals can offer to the people they serve, I think, is to declare their offices and facilities to be “assisted suicide free zones.” Indeed, I hope that medical organizations create plaques and certificates to that doctors and health . . . . Continue Reading »
This may hurt a little. Any man, no matter who, will respond to a recording of his own voice with "Wait, I really sound like that?" That’s what I felt last week as I heard a smart young student speak in praise of suffering at an ISI lecture, for the slightly embarrassing reason that . . . . Continue Reading »
Fred Kaplan says that the “very fact of a black president with multinational roots unhinges the terrorists’ recruitment poster of a racist, parochial, Muslim-hating United States.” I hear this claim all the time, but I don’t buy it. Is anti-racism really a driving passion in . . . . Continue Reading »
Has anyone checked the sea levels today? . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m with you, Amanda . A yes vote on California’s Proposition 8 would ban gay marriage and would trump the court’s imposition of gay marriage on the people of California. The final tallies are not in, but it looks like the attempt to legalize gay marriage has been narrowly . . . . Continue Reading »
The UK has apparently promulgated a hyper-detailed set of regulations governing the treatment of animals. Rather than properly guard against actual abuse, it also bans permitting dogs to beg at the table and cats kept from looking out windows. From the story: The guidelines cover the environment for . . . . Continue Reading »
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