A reader writes: As it stands, Israel has the support of most of the Western World. As it stands, they’re free to complete the task at hand. So, what do they stand to lose if you let international press in? Comeon, guys. This isn’t a mystery. You let CNN in there – with their “Heal the world, make it a better place” mentality, and they and every other liberally-biased media outlet is going to turn this into a hand-wringing circus.... Read more

It’s a Weird Day When Time Magazine Sound like Mark Steyn …but this article basically makes the same point that he has been making. It happens to focus on Israel, but it’s just as true of the West. We are basically a hedonist society that has forgotten God and is slowly aborting and consuming itself out of existence. The threat of Islam to the West is like the threat of parasitic disease to a patient who has destroyed his immune... Read more

Theodore Dalrymple (a Very Good Egg) Watches as the Cognoscenti Continue Making Very Selective War, not on “Religion”, But on Jesus Christ the Last Vestiges of Christian Influence on Western Culture The Cultured Despisers really do seem to me more and more nakedly (and stupidly) committed to a sort of reflexive demonic hatred of Christ. Islam is an irritant for them, but often gets a pass because a) they are cowards who fear ticking off Muslims and b) Islam is... Read more

Ghastly Reports from Gaza The amazing thing about how this is handled in the American press is that Israel forbids international press in Gaza. So stories like this leak out from, in this case, Red Crescent ambulance drivers. When the story gets published, believers in the Immaculate Conception of the state of Israel then a) point to official state happy talk from Israel and b) say, “The guy is a Red Crescent ambulance driver or covered by the NY Times... Read more

Love (and We) are Nothing but Chemical, Says Some Scientist But if that batch of chemical called “I” puts a batch of chemical called a “love potion” into another batch of chemicals called “the woman I am seducing” and that batch of chemical undergoes the chemical reaction called “love” that’s “unethical”. I wonder how complicated a chemical reaction has to be before you can call it “ethical” or “unethical”? Personally, I think the whole attempt to derive “oughts” like “don’t... Read more

Love (and We) are Nothing but Chemical, Says Some Scientist But if that batch of chemical called “I” puts a batch of chemical called a “love potion” into another batch of chemicals called “the woman I am seducing” and that batch of chemical undergoes the chemical reaction called “love” that’s “unethical”. I wonder how complicated a chemical reaction has to be before you can call it “ethical” or “unethical”? Personally, I think the whole attempt to derive “oughts” like “don’t... Read more

Traylor Howard: She’s the Guy! The woman who saved Monk against considerable odds. A great show with a great cast and great writing. Tony Shaloub can do no wrong. Read more

Generation Narcissus: Where Even Parenting is All About Us Forty-nine-year-old Linda is married with no children of her own. Now, she says she feels like a mother because she has Reborns — dolls made to look and feel like the real thing. “It’s not a crazy habit, like, you know, drinking, or some sort of, something that’s going to hurt you. It’s like a hobby.and it doesn’t really hurt anybody,” Linda said. These women are paying big bucks for this... Read more

Pill Inventor Slams Pill Eighty five year old Carl Djerassi the Austrian chemist who helped invent the contraceptive pill now says that his co-creation has led to a “demographic catastrophe.” In an article published by the Vatican this week, the head of the world’s Catholic doctors broadened the attack on the pill, claiming it had also brought “devastating ecological effects” by releasing into the environment “tonnes of hormones” that had impaired male fertility, The Taiwan Times says. Pope Paul VI:... Read more

McAfee Site Advisor So, without asking, McAfee suddenly adds this stupid search engine to my browser. Anybody know how to take it off? Also, I’d like to get rid of Site Advisor. I’ve disabled it, but it’s still sitting there on my browser. Oh ye of superior geekness, hear my pleas! Update: Never mind! I figured it out. Turn off the toolbar. D’oh! Read more