We have blogged earlier about the phenomenon of “temporary marriage” in Shi’ite Islam, which sanctions sexual immorality by allowing a man to “marry” a woman and then “divorce” her after a one-night stand. Now a mosque in Iran is, in effect, setting up a prostitution
I am not what you would call an early adopter. Our one-and-half year old granddaughter was poking the buttons on our television set and somehow she broke the thing! The screen would light up, showing no picture, and then fade to black. Since that set
Profits are way up, but employment is way down. Harold Meyerson is worried about what he sees as a new business model: In the mildly halcyon days before the 2008 crash, the one economic outlier was wages. Profit, revenue and GDP all increased; only ordinary
Great Britain has a state-run health care system, having taken over virtually all medical care at little or no cost to the individual. That’s what many people in this country would also like to see eventually. But now the incredibly expensive British system has to
Consider not only this unspeakable sacrilege but the reason given for commiting it: St. Peter’s Anglican Church has long been known as an open and inclusive place. So open, it seems, they won’t turn anyone away. Not even a dog. That’s how a blessed canine
That post about the Post Office contained an intriguing concept. It accuses the USPS of acting like Kodak, which hung onto its chemical film business even after the digital camera was invented. The syndrome is “looking at the future as a variant of the present.” This
The U.S. Postal Service is having financial problems again and is proposing higher postage feeds and cutting out Saturday deliveries. What, though, do you get in your mail these days? In an age of e-mails and electronic banking, do we even need snail mail anymore?
Speaking of buying that Bo Giertz novel through this blog reminded me to thank all of you who are using Cranach as your Amazon portal. Going to that site from here, using the Amazon search box in the sidebar, gives this blog a commission on
Last week the Washington Post outed thousands of top-secret security agencies, to the point of publishing an on-line map so that they can be located. Now an online group WikiLeaks has released thousands of classified documents about the war in Afghanistan: U.S. and Pakistani officials
Despite North Korean threats to go nuclear, the U.S. and South Korea are going on with their naval exercises. See S. Korea, U.S. stage anti-sub exercises in 2nd day of joint naval drills.
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