2009-02-04T07:45:37-05:00

Religious Discrimination Embedded in Stimulus Bill| Christianpost.com: Republicans, Christians Blast Contraceptive Spending in Stimulus Plan The legislative team at American Center for Law and Justice has noticed that a provision in Section 803 of the measure contains language that would prohibit schools that accept funding

2009-02-03T07:51:57-05:00

Thanks to Mollie Z. Hemingway for harvesting some other great John Updike quotes from various newspaper obituaries: ”I remember the times when I was wrestling with these issues that I would feel crushed. I was crushed by the purely materialistic, atheistic account of the universe,”

2009-02-03T07:46:30-05:00

No, this isn’t the one about sex and vegetables. The SuperBowl featured lots of commercials about sex. But this commercial raises a topic that is far more subversive, one that is so taboo that it must not be so much as mentioned in polite company,

2009-02-03T07:42:10-05:00

Google and NASA are collaborating to start Singularity University, an institute that will prepare the way for the time when, in a few decades, computers will become smarter than human beings and will start solving the world’s problems on their own: Google and Nasa are

2009-02-02T07:48:16-05:00

Looking for something else, I came across some material on acedia, that spiritual state characterized by boredom, ennui, apathy, listlessness, just giving up and not caring anymore. It’s a condition much discussed and treated in the centuries-long literature of spiritual directors, for churches that have

2009-02-02T07:34:13-05:00

Headline on an AP story on the mother of six who recently had octuplets: Mother of octuplets mother refused to cull embryos: After finding out about her pregnancy, the woman declined an option offered by doctors of reducing the number of embryos, her mother said.

2009-02-02T07:33:46-05:00

As we blogged before Christmas, Disney had dropped its plans to produce the next Narnia movie, “Voyage of the Dawn Treader.” But now 20th Century Fox has taken on the project, in partnership with Walden Media, which owns the rights to the C. S. Lewis

2009-02-02T07:33:22-05:00

I didn’t watch the Superbowl. Nothing against the teams, but I hadn’t followed either of them and a wave of apathy overtook me. The thought of seeing new commercials also filled me with a strange malaise. I know I missed out on our great new

2009-01-30T07:59:09-05:00

Today and this weekend, we will contemplate our bad economy and the efforts to fix it. OK, that’s a rather depressing topic, if you will excuse the D-word, so let’s try also to find the lighter side.

2009-01-30T07:58:34-05:00

We often talk about our parents and grandparents who went through the Great Depression, how to this day they scrimp and save, never throw anything away, and can delay their gratification. We also hail this “Greatest Generation” for their strong character, which was cultivated through

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