SHS Funnies

by Wesley J. Smith

As I approach my 60th, not funny:Har de har, . . . . Continue Reading »

17 Jun 2009 0

Obama Health Care Ambition Will Bankrupt Us

by Wesley J. Smith

The only way universal health care will have any chance of working financially is if it is modest, covering the basics and leaving the optionals to people’s own private decision making and budgets.  But the Left isn’t about freedom, it is about the raw exercise of power, hence, . . . . Continue Reading »

17 Jun 2009 0

Report: “90% Of Waking Hours Spent Staring At Glowing Rectangles.”

by Ryan Sayre Patrico

Or, instead of poets , we could just stick with The Onion . . . . . Continue Reading »

17 Jun 2009 0

Think Journalism Should Be More Upbeat?

by Ryan Sayre Patrico

Hire more poets : Last week, Israel’s oldest newspaper, Haaretz , took a one-off chance, temporarily replacing its workaday reporters with 31 of the country’s leading poets and authors. The writers, as writers do, ran amok. They filed epic front-page news reports on daily life in the . . . . Continue Reading »

17 Jun 2009 0

Murder, By Any Other Name

by Christopher Blosser

LifeSiteNews.com profiles Luhra Tivis , a former employee of the late-term abortionist George Tiller, whose experiences working at his facility drove her into a life of pro-life activism. Tivis had no hand in the performance of the abortions themselves—rather, she was assigned the task of . . . . Continue Reading »

17 Jun 2009 0

Re: Hating Ulysses

by Jay Anderson

In many ways, I share Joe’s antipathy toward James Joyce’s Ulysses . But I must confess to having something of a love-hate relationship with Joyce’s novel, which relates in tedious detail a day in the life of the city of Dublin and its environs. On the one . . . . Continue Reading »

17 Jun 2009 0

How Amoral We Have Become: Book Reviewer Calls Larry’s Kidney a “Slapstick Comedy”

by Wesley J. Smith

A little while ago I wrote here at SHS decrying amoral Trade reviews given to a new book called Larry’s Kidney, in which a man and his Cousin Larry go to China for a little biological colonialism to buy the aforementioned Larry a kidney—no doubt obtained from killing a prisoner (perhaps . . . . Continue Reading »

17 Jun 2009 0

Good Satire Contains Much Truth: Putting a Gymnist Out of Her Misery

by Wesley J. Smith

Gymnast Shawn Johnson Put To Sleep After Breaking . . . . Continue Reading »

17 Jun 2009 0

I Was Robbed—Not of Money but of My Work: The Perils of the Internet

by Wesley J. Smith

About two years ago I wrote a piece for First Things about the perils to human exceptionalism. It must have been a good piece, because it was copied verbatim and published today over at a site called Living Text of Sociology, under what appears to be the name of one Thad Reisen Edison.  At the . . . . Continue Reading »

16 Jun 2009 0

Oh, How I Hate Ulysses (A Bloomsday Rant)

by Joe Carter

In Jasper Fforde’s charming alternate history The Eyre Affair , England in the 1980s is a place where hardcore literature fans change their name to John Milton, roving gangs of surrealists rumble with French impressionists, and “Baconians” go door-to-door like Jehovah . . . . Continue Reading »

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