Believe it or not, I had a grandmother who used to goof around with her grandkids about the “Girls in France who did the ‘coochie coochie’ dance.” It was all a joke and we kids (me and my sister and cousins) loved it. It was all in fun when we were young. We kids thought it was . . . . Continue Reading »
The Journal of the American Medical Association published an article by Douglas B. White, MD and law professor Thaddeus M. Pope, arguing that intractable futile care disputes belong in court. (In a medical futility dispute, doctors seek to withdraw life-sustaining treatment over the . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Josh Barro (who I believe once interned for Romney’s campaign for governor of Massachusetts) has a must read on Bain and Romney. 2. Very interesting set of comments by Peter and commenter Art Deco in the below thread on Bob Dole and 1996. My take is that, given . . . . Continue Reading »
In a New York Times Op-Ed , history professor Sara Ritchey makes much of the fact that married Anglican clergy will become Catholic priests under the new Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter. Ritchey provides some useful historical background that outlines the early medieval shift to an . . . . Continue Reading »
The Portsmouth Abbey School will be hosting a conference by the Portsmouth Institute June 22-24th, entitled Modern Science, Ancient Faith . The speakers, including William Dembski of Baylor University, Kenneth Miller from Brown, Abbot James Wiseman, O.S.B., of Catholic U. and St. Anselm College, . . . . Continue Reading »
Actually, “clanging cymbal” is probably a too-generous descriptor of this video (“Why I Hate Religion, but Love Jesus”), which has been ricocheting across the Internet of late, racking up somewhere in the neighborhood of six million views in just three days. What . . . . Continue Reading »
The January Human Exceptionalist is now out for your perusal. Here is my introductory letter. From the HE: Dear Exceptional Human:Happy New Year to all from the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism! It may be 2012, but the struggle to maintain human exceptionalism . . . . Continue Reading »
Mercedes has apologized (but only “to those who took offense”) for using Che Guevara as a symbol, which I mentioned in yesterday’s The Benz and the Psychopath . The company’s statement: In his keynote speech at CES, Dr. Zetsche addressed the revolution in automobility . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter J. Leithart on the poetry of sex : Medieval Christians were obsessed with the Song of Songs. No book of the Bible received such intensely devoted attention in commentary and preaching. Bernard of Clairvaux preached eighty-six homilies on the Song and died just as he was getting started on . . . . Continue Reading »
An anonymous New York judge asked the New York Ethics Committee whether a judge can refuse to conduct the marriage of a gay couple? While the committee did not let its yes mean yes or its no mean no, Rob Vischer at Mirror of Justice says they did “opine that the judge could choose to conduct . . . . Continue Reading »
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