Sometimes, Woody Allen’s fantasy from Annie Hall actually happens:I provide a lot of latitude here on my blog for people to disagree with me, call me names, and cast aspersion on my motives. That’s why I don’t generally read or respond to private emails that criticize what I . . . . Continue Reading »
Comments by ME on Gates’ warning our NATO Allies. . . . . Continue Reading »
I concluded the Songbook #6 essay by quoting Chantal Delsol in partial defense of, or rather, in sympathetic re-conceptualization of, the idealistic anti-war impulse. Delsol is a philosophic, essayistic, “anthropological,” Tocquevillian, and Catholic analyst of our present “late . . . . Continue Reading »
Global warming hysterics have resorted in recent years to one of the biggest gun in any political advocacy arsenal—the lawyers. Suits have been brought, for example, against businesses that have acted within existing pollution regulations—for spewing carbon dioxide and supposedly warming . . . . Continue Reading »
These kind of stories are appearing with greater regularity in the UK papers: A Christian discusses his or her faith with a colleague, or offers to pray with a patient—and gets the sack and/or is put through the job discipline ringer. (Here’s an example from just a month . . . . Continue Reading »
Scientists have developed a new strain of wheat that can increase yields and resist a virulent fungus. From the Greenwire story via the NYT:A multinational group of scientists has developed farm-ready wheat resistant to a virulent and devastating plague that has slowly spread from Africa into the . . . . Continue Reading »
ESCR scientists are mounting a furious political assault against the lawsuit, currently back in Royce Lamberth’s court urging that human embryonic stem cell research continue to be funded by the Feds, hoping to pressure the judge to see it their way. From the Science Daily Story:Banning . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Bike vs. Car vs. Pedestrian °°°°°° 2. Top 10 Misused English Words °°°°°° 3. Why is America the ‘no-vacation nation’? Let’s be blunt: If you like to take lots of vacation, the United States is not the place to work. Besides a . . . . Continue Reading »
The world has a big problem with Christian exclusivism—the belief that there is one God uniquely revealed in Jesus Christ, who is the one way, truth, and life for all people at all times. Theologians and apologists have defended exclusivism’s truth since time out of mind, but never so . . . . Continue Reading »
In the comments on Songbook #5, I was reminded that Bono said he wrote the central verse of U2’s “New Year’s Day” with Solidarity’s struggle in mind. My reply there lays out the erotic and political elements any full analysis of that song would address, and why the . . . . Continue Reading »
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