Would you believe that yesterday
That girl was in my arms and swore to me

She’d blogwatch eternally…

Disputations: Saints behaving badly.

Jane Galt: Against the corporate income tax.

Sed Contra: David S.:

Things used to make so much sense, and I never used to doubt anything about my life or my faith. Now, approaching the age of forty and finally coming to terms with the facts that both ordained religious life and married life are out of the question for me, nothing makes sense anymore.

What do you do when that happens?

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From the NY Sun: “With the cost of health care looming as an election issue in America this fall, doctors in Canada are speaking out about their own system and voicing some serious displeasure. The latest sign is the selection this week of the head of Canada’s largest private hospital, Brian Day, to become the president of the Canadian Medical Association in August 2007. Dr. Day’s election is being viewed as a sign that Canadian doctors are getting fed up with socialized medicine. After all, their president-elect has been a forceful advocate for a greater private role in medicine and is technically a criminal, since the law bars clinics like the one he heads.” (via the Club for Growth; and not intended as an endorsement of the American health care “system,” which is obviously insane, but as a caution against adopting the Canadian approach as a solution.)

From the Telegraph:

A blind activist who exposed a campaign by Chinese officials to force women to have abortions was jailed for more than four years yesterday in one of the country’s most controversial human rights cases since the Tiananmen Square massacre.

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From the New Statesman:

“Ma”, in broad translation, means interval or pause, and Kawabata’s best sentences in Japanese are distinguished by suspensions in the action and by pauses between clauses, the equivalent of the use of white space in Japanese ink painting, or the long pause in haiku.

more (via Mumpsimus)