I am sorry, but there is no excuse in an advanced and educated country like the USA, which has been grappling at great cost in human suffering and financial output with AIDS for three decades: Last year, 50,000 new cases of HIV were reported. From the NYT story:Despite years of great progress . . . . Continue Reading »
This one from the New York Times : A Career Sustained by Unwavering Faith , about Florida Marlins’ manager Jack McKeon. He goes to daily Mass, whether he’s home or away. Mornings at church “give me energy,” he said. “You’re free. You feel good.” His daily ritual . . . . Continue Reading »
Everyone is loving to hate Pastor Joe Nelms’ oft-viewed prayer to open a recent NASCAR event. I couldn’t even find an articulate condemnation—something with conviction like, “High priest of consumerism breathes oil-addicted Empire’s last pious gasp.” . . . . Continue Reading »
Putting ourselves an our children further in debt, notes Timothy Dalrymple, is not the way to help the poor : One of the great difficulties of this issue, for Christians, is that the morality of spending and debt has been so thoroughly demagogued that it’s impossible to advocate cuts in . . . . Continue Reading »
While we’re talking about baseball ( A Word for Roger Maris, and About Baseball ), here is something on the subject of the fascinating book Moneyball , Billy Beane, the manager of the Oakland A’s who used sabremetric insights to win World Series though he didn’t have nearly as . . . . Continue Reading »
In her December 2009 essay ” How Pedophilia Lost Its Cool ,” Mary Eberstadt explained how the sometimes gleeful attacks on the Catholic Church during the sexual abuse crisis had made it more difficult for the Church’s critics to wink at pederasty and pedophilia: After all, one . . . . Continue Reading »
This makes Shylock’s pound of flesh seem like a bargain. A Scot professor (of course!) has urged that university students burdened by tuition debt be allowed to sell one of their kidneys to pay the bills. From the story:STUDENTS should be able to sell their kidneys for tens of . . . . Continue Reading »
contributed to by me. Another touching request by a Berry graduate. . . . . Continue Reading »
Saw it last week and I’m still not entirely sure what I think. It was a very enjoyable action movie. It was also unambiguously pro-American, though as Alyssa Rosenberg pointed out it, had trouble incorporating the WWII-era Army’s racial segregation in a satisfying . . . . Continue Reading »
New Jersey is creating a new end of life commission to recommend public policy around end-of-life care. From the legislation: 3. The purpose of the advisory council shall be to conduct a thorough and comprehensive study of all issues that it deems appropriate for the . . . . Continue Reading »
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