A good line from Megan McArdle of The Atlantic Monthly regarding a piece in the New York Times which quotes people happy about the potential decline of New York’s real estate market: This is perhaps why I have so little sympathy for the princes of schadenfreude in this New York Times article . . . . Continue Reading »
This, ladies and gentlemen, could be the Official Papal Skateboard. I wish I could just leave it at that, but you probably want to know exactly how the papacy will, after 2,000 years, finally get its own board. Some time last week, I saw that the Archdiocese of New York was having a contest for . . . . Continue Reading »
Vatican City. Or so says this survey . Of course it’s easy to prosper when the only way you can lose your job is to die and your number one export is infallibility. Try competing with that! Interesting that two independent states within Italy rank in the top 10, but Italy itself ranks only . . . . Continue Reading »
Readers of SHS will recall my disgust at the appalling column by Jane Brody referring her readers to groups that promote and indeed, may also assist in suicides.I wrote a letter in response to that column and spent a very frustrating morning yesterday trying to keep it from being eviscerated in the . . . . Continue Reading »
Robert Latimer, who murdered his daughter Traci because she had cerebral palsy, is out on parole (alas) and vowing to clear his name. Polls in Canada show much sympathy for him. But Tom Oleson, has Latimer’s number in this column published in the Winnipeg Free Press: Robert Latimer has a . . . . Continue Reading »
In t he March 26 issue of the New Republic , Leon Kass and Eric Cohen analyzed the moral crisis of professional American sports. While focusing on the steroid scandals that have rocked Major League Baseball, Kass and Cohen argue that biotechnology is only a symptom of a deeper and broader . . . . Continue Reading »
Zack Dunlap was apparently killed in an auto accident and his organs were going to be procured, when he “came back.” From the story:Natalie Morales: What did the doctors tell you at that point?Pam Dunlap: She just said it wasn’t good.Doug Dunlap: She said brain matter was coming . . . . Continue Reading »
First Things readers in the DC area might be interested in an international symposium on natural law, hosted by Catholic University’s Center for Law, Philosophy and Culture . Beginning this Thursday evening and continuing through Sunday afternoon (March 27-30), the symposium will include . . . . Continue Reading »
The world is now discussing Magdi Cristiano Allam’s baptism by Pope Benedict XVI during the Easter Vigil at St. Peter’s. Osama bin Laden recently accused Benedict of plotting a new Crusade against Islam, and instead finds something far more powerful: faith the size of a mustard seed . . . . Continue Reading »
As promised, I have a piece in this week’s Weekly Standard about the laudable legislation authored by Senators Kennedy and Brownback to reduce the number of eugenic abortions and post birth cut offs of medical treatment (first discussed at SHS here) by ensuring that parents receive accurate . . . . Continue Reading »
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