Terry Trippany on Jul 10 2008 | Filed under: Culture Watch
Headline: Children paint house that didn’t need painting
Story: 4 kids without parental supervision vandalize a construction site. Editors at newspaper homogenize the event with cutesy headline.
Here is the story as it was written in the Des Moines Register:
An 8-year-old and three 7-year-olds made a mess of things at a construction site at 2602 Logan Ave. [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Jun 24 2008 | Filed under: Culture Watch
The San Francisco Examiner online has a big section on Gay Pride Week. It reminded me of why I’ve always found gay self-identification strikingly different from all other major group identifications.
There is no doubt that people tend to try to find like people, and this is true whether they group themselves by religion, ethnicity, profession, [...]
RightGirl at Girl on the Right on Apr 10 2008 | Filed under: Culture Watch, Ideology, Islam
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the basketball sensation who converted to Islam and assumed an Arabic name, does not want to blow you up.
Neither do Iranian-American space tourist Anousheh Ansari or Swiss Muslim theologian Tariq Ramadan.
Such is the message of a new children’s colouring book, provocatively titled I Don’t Want to Blow You Up, that aims to teach [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Apr 08 2008 | Filed under: Culture Watch, Feature Article
We’re down in Southern California for Spring Break, so we’re doing some SoCal stuff. Today’s outing was to the Reagan Library in Simi Valley. My only other visit had been more than a decade ago, and two things were different since that last trip. First, on this trip, I wasn’t a hostile [...]
Little Fox at The Intolerant Fox on Mar 28 2008 | Filed under: Culture Watch, Evolution, Feature Article, Religion
Serial killers are the subjects of many documentaries, books, speculation, study, etc., but still no one knows why they do what they do. Browsing late night TV last night, I came across Confessions of a Serial Killer on MSNBC profiling Jeffrey Dahmer and his family circa 1994. I’ve always been fascinated by the serial killer [...]
MKFreeberg at House of Eratosthenes on Mar 25 2008 | Filed under: Culture Watch
My first name is Morgan, and I’ve had it for almost forty-two years.
So yeah, damn straight this is right, I can vouch for that personally.
According to an academic survey, men and women make extensive assumptions about someone’s lifestyle and character based simply on their Christian name.
[snip]
“Traditional names with royal associations are viewed as highly successful [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Mar 12 2008 | Filed under: Abortion Debate, Culture Watch, Feature Article
Soccer Dad, who has a wonderful blog here, sent me a nice email agreeing with the points I made in my Biology will have its way post. He added an anecdote about Planned Parenthood: “The archdiocese of Baltimore announced that it would pay for counseling for women who had undergone abortions. Planned Parenthood objected. It [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Mar 11 2008 | Filed under: Culture Watch, Feminism, Health and Science
One of the things the feminists insist upon is absolute equality, whether that means depriving men of the opportunity to participate in college sports simply because there aren’t enough women to create parity, something that’s now being done in the sciences as well; or allowing women to engage in sexual activity as if they were [...]
Don Quixote at BookWorm Room on Feb 19 2008 | Filed under: Culture Watch
It is a cliche that conservatives believe in equality of opportunity and liberals believe in equality of results. But, what this really means is that conservatives work toward a society in which all who work hard, play by the rules, and contribute to society earn the benefit of their labor. Liberals reject hard [...]
MKFreeberg at House of Eratosthenes on Feb 18 2008 | Filed under: Culture Watch
We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to his own way;
and the LORD has laid on him
the iniquity of us all. — Isaiah 53:6
After just a few centuries, science is finally catching up. Most impressive.
Have you ever arrived somewhere [...]
