Self-deception, by definition, is impossible to see without someone else’s help. And, all too often, it is likely that the person who helps us see that will, in the short term, anger us. This is part of being human. Rufus, over at the League of Ordinary Gentlemen, ties this self-deception, or lack of self-criticism, to [...]
This is just another installment of an ongoing debate I have with a large part of the population, because I don’t think there needs to be any apology for “vulgarity.”. After all, who determines what is vulgar and what isn’t? The answer is that “the community” collectively determines that. But that is just sidestepping the [...]
One of the best discussions of modern racism comes up with this salient point: Racism, as all isms go never completely goes away for it is a condition of moral decay, spiritual deficiency and part of imperfect human nature. What has changed is in recognizing the isms as well as societal policing of certain behaviors [...]
Linsay Lohan, never before confused with Jesus Christ, is apparently such the very image of the Messiah that Bill Donohue is worried that Catholics will…well, it isn’t exactly clear what he’s worried about. Bill Donohue, head of the Catholic League, told Politics Daily: “Not only is the pose inappropriate, the timing is offensive.” (Catholicism’s most [...]
This post is the fallout from a Facebook discussion. The issue at hand had to do with “Don’t Ask; Don’t Tell” (DADT) and its purpose. After all, no soldier, sailor, marine, or airman’s job is to get laid for their country. So serving in the military is not inherently dependent on sexual orientation. In concept, [...]
A very sad story: In a closed courtroom in one of the few government buildings still standing here, Laura Silsby and nine other American missionaries were charged Thursday with abducting children from this earthquake-ravaged capital. snip or Ms. Silsby it was the latest in a series of wrong turns on a road her parents and [...]
Thus saith the Lord: Get thee post haste to Haiti and swipest thou some darkling children in their tender years so that thou mightest destroy the ties of culture and family, and takest them thou to the ironically named “black market” to sell them for adoption to holier-than-thou couples who will congratulate themselves on supporting [...]
Exactly as most of us who bothered to consider the causal relationship thought: Vaccines do not cause autism: A major British medical journal on Tuesday retracted a flawed study linking the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to autism and bowel disease. The retraction by The Lancet comes a day after a competing medical journal, BMJ, [...]
