At the beginning of 2010, I compiled a list that included 1,034 predictions for the coming year. I later went through and narrowed it down to the top 500 that I was absolutely certain would happen. Even after cutting the list down, though, I only managed to achieve a 67 percent accuracy rate. . . . . Continue Reading »
I think the New York Times report on this story gets the angle wrong. From the story:Two Mississippi sisters serving double life sentences for their roles in an $11 armed robbery will be released, but only on the condition that the younger sibling donate her kidney to her sister, whose organs . . . . Continue Reading »
While I’m willing to agree with Michael Barone that at least some of the heat in the culture wars has been turned down a bit (but see this post for a qualification), a lot of interesting things have been said recently about marriage, some of which I noted here . In the first place, I want to . . . . Continue Reading »
A man who grew up in a Communist family in Puerto Rico describes his movement out of the party and its anti-Americanism, as well as his observations on racial politics and the Left in America. While a memoir of the Gulag , and of European anti-semitism, has just appeared in English, 53 years . . . . Continue Reading »
This is interesting. A scientific study finds that a more old fashioned approach to romance enhances the chances that relationships will be sustained and satisfying. From the story in Live Science:Delaying sex makes for a more satisfying and stable relationship later on, new research . . . . Continue Reading »
Merrill Matthews at Forbes makes an excellent point about Obamacare undercutting of the rule of objective law and elevating subjective and/or arbitrary standards of control by bureaucrats—a theme I have also pounded like a drum. Recall, for example, Medicare’s new Independent . . . . Continue Reading »
Iran, it seems, is experiencing a textbook case of conflict between the aggressive and absorptive power of the secular state and religious authority. In today’s Financial Times , Najmeh Bozorgmehr reports that Iran’s highest ranking cleric is getting sideways with the officially Islamic . . . . Continue Reading »
Mississippi governor Haley Barbour has issued one of the creepiest statements ever issued by a state government : The Mississippi Parole Board reviewed the sisters’ request for a pardon and recommended that I neither pardon them, nor commute their sentence. At my request, the Parole Board . . . . Continue Reading »
Jonah Goldberg seems to complain that being gay is no longer being transgressive or genuinely countercultural or genuinely bohemian. The gays no longer offer us a genuinely “alternative lifestyle” that stands in contrast to the boring bourgeois family. On MODERN FAMILY, the most boring . . . . Continue Reading »
Max McLean’s one-man show, “ Mark’s Gospel ,” a word-for-word dramatic recitation of the entire Gospel of Mark, is now available online in its entirety. Justin Taylor has collected all sixteen videos in this post . As Taylor notes, “All said, it runs about an hour and a . . . . Continue Reading »
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