offered by Night Writer from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Letters and Papers from Prison: “Folly is a more dangerous enemy to the good than evil. One can protest against evil; it can be unmasked and, if need be, prevented by force. Evil always carries the seeds of its own destruction, as it makes people, at the least, [...]
by the Night Writer Gerald Prante writing at the Tax Policy Blog examines a recent report published in the New England Journal of Medicine calling for a penny-per-ounce soft-drink tax to pay for the long-term health costs of obesity. According to the report’s authors, the soft-drink industry represents “market failures” — in the form of [...]
by the Night Writer Somebody had the brilliant idea to create a game app for the iPhone where the objective is to shake a baby to death, and then Apple thought it was a good idea to approve and market it. What next, a baby-seal clubbing app? Columbine as a first-person-shooter? Concentration Camp Jenga? FAIL [...]
by the Night Writer If there were a road-map of my brain you’d likely see a lot of philosophical or meditative roads and perhaps not a few dead ends. Some parallel each other, others are all over the map, and some intersect (it’s an arrangement only a St. Paul city engineer could appreciate). Anyway, the [...]
by the Night Writer Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition as it appears the only way to get bullets now and for the forseeable future is by divine intervention. I won’t get into what caliber gun Jesus would use (though He did say, “Blessed are the Peacemakers,” which, coincidentally, use the same bullets that [...]
by the Night Writer The open palm of desire, wants everything, wants everything, wants everything… — Paul Simon, “Further to Fly” Here’s an interesting article I read yesterday: 1 in 5 Four-Year-Olds Obese, Study Finds Associated Press Online Lindsey Tanner April 07, 2009 A striking new study says almost 1 in 5 American 4-year-olds is [...]
by the Night Writer I first saw this article and threw it into my drafts folder about a month ago and forgot about it. A little spring cleaning, however, brings you this snippet from the Llama Butchers: Senator Warner wants to start a “discussion” about end-of-life issues From The Virginian Pilot. Make no mistake about [...]
by the Night Writer A convicted would-be bomber and accessory to murder and armed robbery has been paroled from prison in California and is returning to Minnesota. That may be “so what?” news for folks not from around here but it has been quite a story in Minnesota since 1999 when Kathleen Soliah (now known [...]
Tasha Easterly in her blog at Salvo Magazine, comments on a recent Camille Paglia radio interview. Camille Paglia Says Democrats Betrayed the Soul of Their Party Camille Paglia appeared on WABC-AM’s ‘The Mark Simone Show’ yesterday to talk about the Fairness Doctrine, and you may be surprised at what she said. Paglia blasted the Democrats [...]
Someone was writing the other day and reminiscing about The Greatest Generation, those gritty Americans who survived the Great Depression and still had the strength and will to defeat Hitler and the Axis powers. The writer contrasted that generation with our current citizens, referred to as “The Laziest Generation.” At first I thought that an [...]
