Actually, “clanging cymbal” is probably a too-generous descriptor of this video (“Why I Hate Religion, but Love Jesus”), which has been ricocheting across the Internet of late, racking up somewhere in the neighborhood of six million views in just three days. What . . . . Continue Reading »
The January Human Exceptionalist is now out for your perusal. Here is my introductory letter. From the HE: Dear Exceptional Human:Happy New Year to all from the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism! It may be 2012, but the struggle to maintain human exceptionalism . . . . Continue Reading »
Mercedes has apologized (but only “to those who took offense”) for using Che Guevara as a symbol, which I mentioned in yesterday’s The Benz and the Psychopath . The company’s statement: In his keynote speech at CES, Dr. Zetsche addressed the revolution in automobility . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter J. Leithart on the poetry of sex : Medieval Christians were obsessed with the Song of Songs. No book of the Bible received such intensely devoted attention in commentary and preaching. Bernard of Clairvaux preached eighty-six homilies on the Song and died just as he was getting started on . . . . Continue Reading »
An anonymous New York judge asked the New York Ethics Committee whether a judge can refuse to conduct the marriage of a gay couple? While the committee did not let its yes mean yes or its no mean no, Rob Vischer at Mirror of Justice says they did “opine that the judge could choose to conduct . . . . Continue Reading »
There is a school of thought that says physics is the ultimate reality; that everything reduces to subatomic particles mindlessly subject to natural law.The story is told—I don’t remember where I heard it—of two young women sitting in the front row of a concert hall, holding the . . . . Continue Reading »
Enough with the Reluctant Atheists Terry Eagleton, Guardian Working with the Muslims Austin Ruse, Catholic Thing The Parental Happiness Curve W. Bradford Wilcox & Elizabeth Marquardt, MercatorNet Hosanna in the Highest! Michael Stokes Paulsen, Public Discourse Do the Three Abrahamic . . . . Continue Reading »
A man in Zimbabwe was arrested yesterday when, during a routine roadblock and police search, he was found to be carrying a sack of four Gaboon vipers on a bus. Mathew Aidini, 23, was bringing the snakes to Harare in order to sell them to what The Zimbabwean refers to as “an undisclosed . . . . Continue Reading »
He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands When they found him with the dead . . . But the coat worn by Charles Thomas Wooldridge, the unnamed hangee of “The Ballad of Reading . . . . Continue Reading »
We discussed the new computer model that supposedly can predict how much longer one has to live in the context of whether a patient should be told they have less than ten years. But the NYT’s take on the same story raises another issue we only tangentially touched before; whether a . . . . Continue Reading »
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