The Doctor Is In

 
White dogs can’t dance….

On forgiveness & race: An Open Letter to Senator Obama
Neuhaus on ‘The Speech’: quietly demolishing Obam Obama Dana: The Strange Ways of Black Folk
Watch out for customers with swinging watches: ‘Hypnotist’ thief hunted in Italy
Elephants in the living room: QandO on the Medicare and Social Security financial black hole. Let’s expand these […]

Those hateful, racist fundamentalists: Vanderleun goes looking for racism and hate in a broad swath of fundamentalist churches — and finds it in a most surprising place: Graven Images: Racist Fundamentalist Churches of America
Of course, you know, this means war: the intractable, insoluble problem of web standards and OS upgrades: no winners, no matter how […]

What brilliant darkness now descends
To slay the weight which life doth rob
To bear the anguish undeserved
On frigid stone no glorious end.
The blazing lanterns light the night
As noble leaders drain the cup
To toast the end of ghost not known
And praise the triumph of blind sight.
What brilliant darkness now hangs deep
In hopeless end of fruitless dreams
In upper […]

This is reposted from Dec 2006.
Excellent Easter main course.

 
The holidays are in full swing — which means a concerted effort to attain new heights of dietary excess, occasioned by an endless stream of convivial gatherings of family and friends. Einstein postulated that gravity has waves; such waves seem self-evident, making the bathroom scale increasingly […]

Three men on a Friday, condemned to die. Ensnared by Roman justice, convicted, and sentenced to a lingering death of profound cruelty and excruciating agony.
The Romans knew how to do it right: execution designed to utterly humiliate its victims, and maximize their suffering–a public spectacle and object lesson to others about the foolishness of defying […]

“Charlie bit me!”
 

To Whom It May Concern: How to Write a Business Letter That Gets Results
The second Jerusalem temple: Cool video of a recreation of the site.
The environmentalists clever plan to make earth human-free: Famine watch
… and if that doesn’t work, population control will: The Demographic Winter and the Barren Left
But at least the sexual […]

In light of the snowballing interest in Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama’s minister and mentor, I am re-posting this essay from May 2007, when Hillary was the presumed nominee, and Obama just a charismatic wannabe.
Many are wondering whether the media is just cherry-picking a few outrageous sermons. My take? Nope, what you see is what […]

In yesterday’s post, I took to task a comment made by Jon Henke, from the always-excellent QandO blog, regarding his support for legalization of prostitution, which came up because of the Eliot Spitzer imbroglio. His comment was in essence a springboard for what I believe to be a flawed position held by many libertarians.
Jon was […]