I have to take exception to Jim Wallis’ response to his readers: Support for women caught up in difficult situations and tragic choices is a better path than coercion for really reducing the abortion rate. Yes, I agree there is never a “need” for abortion except in the case where the health of the mother [...]
From a friend: I simply can’t get on board the bus when I’ve already been thrown under it, and the more Democrats I talk to, the more I find that I’m not close to being alone. Most of us agree that we simply can’t bring ourselves to vote for John McCain (at least, not yet), [...]
This is one of the best essays I’ve read on suffering. I am keeping a list of questions to get answered hereafter. I am not looking for answers now because there are none that can satisfy me or any other reasonable person. I can offer some partial answers: Free will accounts for a lot. Where [...]
West Helena, Arkansas has implemented a “24-hour curfew“. What, pray tell, is “a 24-hour curfew”? More to the point, how is a “24-hour curfew” any different than “martial law“? Police Chief Fred Fielder said the patrols have netted 32 arrests since they began last week in a 10-block neighborhood in this small town on the [...]
In no particular order: Stupid is as stupid does: But, of course, I’m forgetting the rules: Edwards’s adultery is bad news for Barack Obama, Bill Clinton’s adultery is bad news for Hillary Clinton, but John McCain’s adultery isn’t an issue for John McCain. Who’s on energy policy first? Here are the %’s for those blamed [...]
any more than I care about John McCain’s swollen and inflamed hemmorhoids. Sphere: Related Content
Take your pick – Brett Favre or Hillary Clinton. Either way, it fits. Brett Favre is easy to summarize: Favre, in weeks, has morphed from the go-long-till-you-hit-the-barn legend of Kiln, Miss. — a real-life Wrangler jeans commercial — into the old guy who now needs the game more than it needs him. But I’ll be [...]
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that education is not a big leveller: Where people go to college can make a big difference in starting pay, and that difference is largely sustained into midcareer, according to a large study of global compensation. In the yearlong effort, PayScale Inc., an online provider of global compensation data, [...]
Which candidate is more racist, Barack Obama for saying he doesn’t “look like those other Presidents” or John McCain for comparing his opponent to his supporter’s daughter, Paris Hilton? If you answered, “Neither!” then you should get up right now and give yourself an extra Oreo (no racial overtones intended). McCain’s comment has nothing to [...]
Mystical Seeker brings up the church shooting and hatred: It is strange that some people can be so blinded by their own hate that they don’t see that they themselves can benefit from the very tolerance and compassion that they abhor in others. My brother asked me what made the shooting so horrific and if [...]
