Thanks to Bruce and tODD for reminding me of The Onion and for alerting me to these satirical takes on our sainted president-elect: Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are Then there is this, headlined Black Man Given America’s Worst
In browsing Wikipedia for some quick facts about something else, I came across this summary of Mortimer Adler’s rather more sophisticated version of the cosmological argument for the existence of God: In his 1981 book “How to Think About God”, Adler attempts to demonstrate God
Updating an earlier post about San Francisco voting on whether to legalize prostitution, the city voted “no.” A vicious proposal to rename the city’s sewer treatment plant after George W. Bush was also defeated. See S.F. rejects prostitution, energy measures.
Todd Peperkorn is a pastor I know, and I have the highest respect for him. His church in Wisconsin is used as a polling place. On election day, he put up this message on the church sign: Election officials made him take down the message.
Victor Davis Hanson urges that conservatives NOT do to the new liberal regime what the liberals did when the conservatives were in power: It seems to me that conservatives have a golden opportunity to offer criticism and advice in a manner that many liberals did
Andrew Ian Dodge raises an issue that I have been concerned about. Now that Barack Obama, whom even comedians venerate, has been elected president,what will happen to political comedy?
In another scientific study of what would seem perfectly obvious, researchers have found a strong link between how much sex teenagers watch on TV and their likelihood of premarital pregnancy. From Sexual content on TV is linked to teen pregnancy: The teens who watched the
Colorado and South Dakota voters defeated measures that would ban abortions. We need to remember that overturning Roe v. Wade–which with an Obama Supreme Court is unlikely to happen–will just turn the issue over to the states, but that the states for the most part
Washington voters approve assisted suicide initiative : Voters approved Initiative 1000 on Tuesday, making Washington the second state to give terminally ill people the option of medically assisted suicide. The ballot measure, patterned after Oregon’s “Death with Dignity” law, allows a terminally ill person to
Voters set back gay marriage. In California, where courts had legalized the practice, a referendum was passed to stop it. Florida and Arizona also voted to define marriage as between a man and a woman. From Gay activists jarred by California marriage defeat – International
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