Remember when you’d be with your friends, fooling around in some questionable manner, and then your mother would tell you to stop it, because “it’s all fun and games, until somebody gets hurt…” And you and your friends would keep doing what you were told not to do, until, inevitably, someone would get hurt. So, the last few days, a few of us bloggers have been irreverently hooting about San Franciscan’s foreskin fixation and it’s desire to outlaw circumcision. And... Read more
At 50th Annual Academy Awards bash of 1977, Vanessa Redgrave thanked the Academy for giving her an Oscar (for “Julia“) despite “the threats of of a small bunch of Zionist hoodlums.” The respected screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky wasted no time in responding to Redgrave’s provocation: “I am sick and tired of people exploiting the Academy Awards for the propagation of their own personal propaganda,” he said, memorably. Chayefsky was speaking to the wind. Why wouldn’t the people who lived and worked... Read more
Our Landing Page is going to be redesigned and updated by the end of the summer, but for now, we’ve tweeked it just the tiniest bit, in order to make the Summablog just a little more easily accessible, and I think it looks a lot cleaner, even if you still have to scroll down a little! What do you think? Read more
Good heavens! Who understands the nature of luck? Read more
From reader Karen — some good news!: Just wanted to give you an update. Jadon started making urine again so did not need dialysis. Just this morning his mom sent me a message that he has opened his eyes and wiggled his fingers in her hand. His heart rate when I visited yesterday was down to the 140s and his blood pressure was up to normal. He still has a way to go, but this is good news and prayers... Read more
When he had said this, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him from their sight. While they were looking intently at the sky as he was going, suddenly two men dressed in white garments stood beside them. They said, “Men of Galilee, why are you standing there looking at the sky? This Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven will return in the same way as you have seen him... Read more
Instapundit notes the economic news is pretty darned bad, and links to this smart stuff. He also links to a CNBC report that says 150 economists “back U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner’s call to match any increase in the debt limit with spending cuts of equal size. . . ” including “. . .Nobel laureate Robert Mundell of Columbia University and economists from schools like New York University and Georgetown University, as well as conservative think tanks like... Read more
Now that we see it’s working and firing on all cylinders, check out Summablog’s new look! The banner, is gorgeous! I wish I were there! Love the new thumbnail, too: Isn’t it pretty? You can grab the RSS feed off of it, too, to catch all the updates, if you like! Or, you know, bookmark it! Read more
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