Equality of Opportunity or of Outcome?

Let’s look some more at this piece by Jillian Bandes, on Obama’s new “Chief Diversity Officer,” Mark Lloyd. I was a bit snarky yesterday when I wrote of this newly-created office: Does it seem to you that the Obama administration makes up titles and offices the way Bluto made up new names for Animal House [...]

Same Old America; "Freedom & Opportunity"

I am on monastic retreat until the weekend, and have scheduled two reposts each day of pieces that some may not have read before. Comments will be off until I return. You might like peeking into last year’s Online Retreat * * * Originally posted in December of 2007, and rather poignant, given the tenor [...]

More on "thee" & "thuh"

Or, “th’” as Joseph Marshall correctly deems it (I think) in the comments section of this surprisingly rambunctious post from yesterday, wherein we wondered how one properly should pronounce the word T-H-E when it precedes a word beginning with a vowel. Not my most popular recent post (that would be my admonishment to Christian girls [...]