This has happened before and it will happen again. A teenager has apparently committed suicide using the death information contained in Derek Humphry’s book Final ExitWho is Derek Humphry? He founded the Hemlock Society—now Compassion and Choices—with his second wife Ann Wickett, . . . . Continue Reading »
In “Help for Navigating Health Care,” San Francisco Chronicle reporter Victoria Colliver interviews a woman named Adrianna Boden, who had a difficult medical experience, and offers tips on being a good medical consumer. From the story:The Empowered Healthcare Community, formed by a . . . . Continue Reading »
Landscape artist Martha Kelly — who, totally coincidentally you understand, happens to be married to my brother — has for years been painting the trees, fields and sky of the Southern lowlands we both call home. Last fall, however, she began working on a series of oil-on-paper images . . . . Continue Reading »
Commenting on the threat to prosecute CIA interrogators and Bush Administration officials for “torture,” Marty Peretz of the New Republic says ” I Don’t Lose Sleep Over Terrorists Being Walled .” Peretz thinks there are too “many Democrats who want to keep George . . . . Continue Reading »
President Obama and the Democrats in Congress intend to completely change the health care system of the United States without permitting any meaningful democratic debate. Rather than hold extensive hearings, allow a full airing of one of the most extensive and expensive changes in law in recent . . . . Continue Reading »
Via Hit & Run , I see that Gerard Magliocca of Concurring Opinions has called Huey Long “the forgotten man in The Forgotten Man ,” by which he means that, whatever you want to say about FDR, at least he wasn’t Huey Long: Among other things, [Governor Long] wanted to establish . . . . Continue Reading »
Most excellently, “Spengler” — a.k.a. David Goldman — is blogging. Even more excellently, he’s blogging on a subject near to the heart, or at least the eye, of any reader of Rieff: the relationship between Judaism and Christianity. Of the Christian Robert Spaemann, . . . . Continue Reading »
A South Carolina woman claims she sees Jesus in her cheese toast . There’s something very charming about that, in its way, but I think I’ll wait for the Sunday Eucharist all the same. . . . . Continue Reading »
From the beginning of creation to the present, the indisputably greatest banjo player was the great Earl Scruggs. From Earl’s prime to today the indisputably greatest is Bela Fleck. The banjo, of course, is a staple of American bluegrass and folk music, but it probably has its roots in West . . . . Continue Reading »
And today we have a very special treat from Judi and the Seventh Congregational Dancers: an interpretation-in-movement of our scripture lesson, taken from 1 Kings 14. Starring Raymond as Rehoboam (with Raymond, Jr., as Abijam his son) — Darren as Shishak, King of Egypt —Judi as . . . . Continue Reading »
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