You can now buy tumor-shaped jewelry to show solidarity with persons suffering from breast cancer.
His Majesty: “I suppose it could be worse. They could be showing solidarity with persons suffering from hypospadia.”
A touching essay on how the dying talk about God.
And an unflatterintg look at Harvard divinity professors.
Walter Russell Mead argues that it is our success that has so disorganized our society.
Shock headline from the Daily Mail (UK):
How Mitt Romney’s family baptized wife Ann’s atheist father into Mormon church a year AFTER his death (more…)
In a single snarky run-on sentence. Which doesn’t mean it isn’t spot-on.
State of the Union speech assessed as being at eighth-grade level.
His Majesty: “Lord Vader, which audience do you mean? The American public, or Congress?”
Yes.
Holding a suspect until the police arrive isn’t vigilante justice. It’s sustaining and upholding the law.
Over the past several years I’ve made several comments at various blogs that same-sex marriage (which is a very big step in the overall destigmatization of homosexuality) will lead to homosexuality becoming a socially acceptable choice.
Well, it has started sooner than I thought it would. I refer you to recent statements by Cynthia Nixon, who, after a 15-year marriage to man, claims she chose to be gay.
Couple this with primary and secondary school textbooks being rewritten to contain positive homosexual characters, and arts and media presenting positive homosexual characters and role models.
I invite you to connect the dots and extrapolate.
A most unusual lecture on some genuinely groundbreaking medical research. Warning: Not for the modest. Hint: The research was on novel treatments for the condition we bashfully call E.D.
In the mood for a doughnut, I stepped in a bakery this morning, and when the clerk rang up my two sour cream doughnuts, the kind that used to be buttermilk and not quite so sweet, I decided to pick up a Washington Post as well. $2.20 changed to $3.26. Surprised, I looked at the front page, and sure enough, in the corner where it used to say 75¢, it now says $1. Answering my question when that happened, the clerk said since Monday.
Sub-titled: “The Jong remains the same.”
Someone (connected to this blog?) has a photo blog consisting of photos of the now-deceased North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il looking at things, usually accompanied by his high-ranking military officers.
And it seems his son Kim Jong-Un, wearing a similar style coat and accompanied by some of the same officers, has kept up the tradition.
Update: And the photo blog of Jr. looking at things is up.
The New Mexico state motto is apparently uncomfortably true.