My friend Manolo the Shoeblogger has, of course, some advice for a woman in need of shoes today: Dear Manolo, I’m a small town girl with big time dreams, who has just been given the job of a lifetime. The next eight weeks will be super demanding and I’ll be in the limelight a lot . . . . . . . Continue Reading »
Despite Jody’s observations , I think McCain was absolutely right not to spend a lot time talking about abortion and related issues in his acceptance speech. Consider: (a) You’ve got to get possession of the bully pulpit before giving the sermons. (b) Those on both sides for whom the . . . . Continue Reading »
If it be true that man must always have some kind of religion, then a thoroughly scientistic future might look something like this . . . . . Continue Reading »
Some friends have written in to ask whether or not it’s hyperbolic to suggest that the left “hates” Sarah Palin, as I suggested yesterday . As an additional data point, I offer this essay from Salon . The author begins by repeating the smear that Trig Palin is not the . . . . Continue Reading »
I find Will Saletan’s statistical analysis cum speculation on the probability that other political daughters have been pregnant out of wedlock a bit offputting. Some things should be private. But he does make a good point along the way: Is Sarah Palin the first nominee on a major-party . . . . Continue Reading »
This commentary by a nurse Ph.D published in Nursing Center is very disturbing. Judith Schwartz suggests that hospice nurses inform patients about methods to legally end their lives where assisted suicide is illegal. Schwartz discusses the patient with intractable symptoms who seeks hastened death. . . . . Continue Reading »
Looking back at the 1993 June/July issue, I found an interesting meditation on friendship between men and women by Gilbert Meilaender. It also has what may be the only citation of Dave Barry in our pages. . . . . Continue Reading »
A clever overview, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, of last week’s poetry lesson . These amusingly mimetic lines are from ” Metrical Feet, a Lesson for a Boy “: Trochee trips from long to short; / v / v / v / From long to long in solemn sort. v / v / v / v / Slow Spondee stalks, strong . . . . Continue Reading »
One reference to a “culture of life,” buried in a laundry list in the twenty-fifth paragraph? That’s it in John McCain’s acceptance speech ? The sole mention of abortion in the combined hour and a half of oratory from the two Republican nominees over the last two nights? . . . . Continue Reading »
The Times Online reports on Ingrid Betancourt’s recent meeting with the pope. Apparently Ms. Betancourt had been a rather lukewarm Catholic, but experienced a tremendous deepening of her faith during the last six years she spent in captivity in the Columbian jungle, praying the Rosary and . . . . Continue Reading »
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