What a beautiful day for a ballgame!
Jul
20
2008
Jul
19
2008
Lifehacker calls attention to the Zipcar car-sharing phenomenon. As usual, the comments are the best part of the post (my reflections are the 5th ones down, under “khiddy”). When I sold my car earlier this year, it was mainly due to the economic impact of having access to a Zipcar on campus. I hope Zipcar recaptures some of the excellent customer service and pricing advantages that Flexcar had before they merged companies.
Jul
19
2008
When I was a kid, Saturday nights were for one thing: The Love Boat, followed by Fantasy Island. I recall one episode of Fantasy Island that scared the bejesus out of me, with the ghosts and the screaming and the involuntary loss of sphincter control. I vividly remember hiding behind the couch while the infernal racket blared from the TV.
I know other kids of my age remember the episode as the scariest touchpoint of our generation’s childhood. Is this clip, with all its camp, the piece that struck such terror into our collective psyche?
Even if it’s not, at 1:11 into the clip, tell me you don’t want to hide behind your office chair…
Jul
18
2008
Jul
18
2008
Drawing upon secular sources, author Mary Eberstadt illustrates that Pope Paul VI’s visionary encyclical Humanae Vitae correctly predicted what would happen when contraception became legal and widespread. As we honor the 40th anniversary of the encyclical (dated July 25th, 1968), it’s high time to look back and see what evil has been wrought by The Pill.
Artificial contraception enslaves us all (women now “freed” from pregnancy, and men who no longer have to worry about consequences) to our libidos. I’ve got a condom, and/or she’s on the pill, let’s do it! Liberating to women? My ass. It turns them into recipients of male sexual aggressiveness.
Artificial contraception also leads to higher abortion rates, because no method is 100% effective, and by contracepting, the couple has already established that they don’t want a child, so what’s the consequence of killing it if pregnancy should occur? (Don’t laugh, I heard this exact line of reasoning from a couple I up-until-then respected.)
Jul
17
2008
Hiding Brutal Reality in Language
Michael Kinsley’s July 21st, 2008 column in Time Magazine spoke about Hillary supporters who won’t vote for the other candidate as “taking their revenge on… women who need abortions”. Why not just write, “babies who need to be killed”, Mr. Kinsley? It’s the same thing!
Earlier in the same issue of the magazine, there was a piece about the far left’s hand-wringing about how Senator Obama is clearly moving to the right because he said that “‘feeling blue’ wasn’t reason enough for late-term abortions” (illustrated in a graphic unavailable online). ”In his transition from upstart candidate to presumptive nominee, Obama has, to some of his ardent fans, come to look dangerously like the ingratiating Washington politicans he so often rails against.”
So what we’ve learned from Time: left-wing wackos are hell-bent on issuing death warrants to the unborn. And Mr. Obama is ostensibly coming around to court centrist voters.
Jul
16
2008
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I’ve finally gotten around to posting a comment box below each post, hosted by Discus. Give it a try, friends!Jul
15
2008
Trying out Trillium Absinthe Superieure, from Integrity Spirits in Portland, OR.
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