Often, while trying to explain my rejection of the death penalty , I use the term “poetic justice,” that great narrative satisfaction that comes in certain stories like the clicking shut of a well-made box. And just as often, I’m asked for an example. Well, here for the record, is . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at the law professors’ blog the Volokh Conspiracy , they’re noting the sixtieth anniversary of the movie Adam’s Rib —which prompts one commentator to quote the movie’s best line: “Lawyers should never marry other lawyers. This is called inbreeding, from which . . . . Continue Reading »
Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past. . . . . Continue Reading »
AP has the story here . . . . . Continue Reading »
We enter a season in which the meaning of conservatism becomes the ping-pong ball du jour. With not only an election, but the meaning of the “movement” in itself in the contention, people of various beliefs and commitments seek to lay claim to the word and thereby to the direction . . . . Continue Reading »
So, a study shows that girls play less energetically than boys. Big whup and, as they say, vive la difference. But some find even this innocuous information a cause for hand wringing. From the story:Girls tend to play less energetically than boys, because they are more interested in chatting, a new . . . . Continue Reading »
A friend of mine spent New Year’s Eve at an Orthodox monastery where, as the year drew to a close, they sang a beautiful hymn of thanksgiving, the Akathist hymn ” Glory to God for All Things .” Here’s a sample: How glorious You are in the springtime, when every creature . . . . Continue Reading »
We seem to have picked up both our fair share of intelligent, articulate, reasoned commenters and our fair share of trolls here at PoMoCon. I’m interested in getting the takes of all of our readers on the following two passages, both from Frederiek Depoortere’s Christ in Postmodern . . . . Continue Reading »
Things continue to go from the strange, to the surreal. The International Endocrine Society is advocating that drugs be given to children with gender identity questions to block puberty, which is already done in some places. From the story:Transsexual children as young as 12 should be given drugs to . . . . Continue Reading »
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