Today is the feast day of St. Francis de Sales , who is the patron of writers and journalists. Here are a few relevant passages from his classic work , Introduction to the Devout Life (which can be acquired in several forms here ). These are warnings rather than instructions, more negative . . . . Continue Reading »
So, now the weather is going to be blamed on industries thought to contribute to global warming. And if the weather causes damage, the industries will be made to pay! From the story:From being a marginal and even mocked issue, climate-change litigation is fast emerging as a new frontier of law where . . . . Continue Reading »
I sketched an appreciation of the Gipper meant to inform and provoke a general audience . It did generate numerous indignant responses from a NYC centrist Democratic talk-radio guy. Had I wanted to provoke our porcher friends I would said more about Carter’s malaise, “crisis of . . . . Continue Reading »
Richard Beck, a professor and experimental psychologist at Abilene Christian University, has written a lengthy and serious theological examination of the greatest comic strip in history : Unlike Peanuts , Calvin and Hobbes is not overtly religious which exacerbates the question. So let me give an . . . . Continue Reading »
Regular readers of SHS will know that I have reacted to recent rationing imposed within Arizona’s Medicaid by pointing out that it is an expected consequence of a single payer health systems hitting a budgetary brick wall. I expand on that analysis in this week’s Weekly . . . . Continue Reading »
1. A Scientific Analysis of the 5-Second Rule* On surfaces that had been contaminated eight hours earlier, slices of bologna and bread left for five seconds took up from 150 to 8,000 bacteria. Left for a full minute, slices collected about 10 times more than that from the tile and carpet, though a . . . . Continue Reading »
Some decades ago, I witnessed an expression of pastoral tenderness that remains with me to this day. The mother of a dear friend died suddenly – at a very young age. They had been a family of three, émigrés from Moscow, and the funeral took place at a Russian Orthodox church in a New . . . . Continue Reading »
Earlier today I noted how some pro-choice advocates are horrified at the logic of the abortion absolutists . But most of those advocates are merely following the logic of “choice.” If you really want to see where the depths of such thinking can lead, you have to turn to atheist . . . . Continue Reading »
William Saletan appears to be a bit dismayed to find that some abortion rights advocates follow the “pro-choice” position to its logical conclusion : Ann Furedi, chief executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, goes further. “Is there anything qualitatively different . . . . Continue Reading »
The nation was shocked at the arrest of a Philadelphia doctor and staff members for the murder of babies who were allegedly born via induced premature delivery, and then killed. The clinic also did late term abortions, including after viability. Over at Secondhand Smoke , I ask an important . . . . Continue Reading »
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