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Thursday, December 28th, 2006

Mr. Steven Warshak appears to have all the hallmarks of a total slime ball.[1] The fact that he certainly appears to deserve being locked up does not justify violating his civil rights though, and that is why the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) are defending him. I [...]

Merry Christmas

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

On this 3rd day of Christmas, I somewhat belatedly wish all and sundry a very merry Christmas.

gramps still not installable via macports

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

I have been filing bug reports against this for months now. Well, really only two bug reports so far, but that is because so little has changed in that time. If you think Gaim development is slow, you should see how closely the macports guys mimic the properties of cold molasses. This [...]

Counting down to Christmas

Monday, December 18th, 2006

7 Days.

1/3rd of all boys will not be able to marry

Monday, December 11th, 2006

If you want to argue that discrimination against women is alive and real, there is at least one area of life where I will most certainly agree: there is very real discrimination against prenatal girls.[1] Unlike most other forms of discrimination, this version is invariably fatal. In some areas of the world, this [...]

Responding to an attack on motherhood

Friday, December 8th, 2006

Ms. Candice Watters of Boundless alerted[1] me to an interview[2] with Ms. Linda Hirshman, author, legal scholar and philosopher. Ms. Hirshman is a strong example of the problems of a secular feminist movement. This is perhaps more true because she is not a moral relativist. She attacks motherhood from a firm set [...]

a rare view of truth

Friday, December 8th, 2006

Contraception has often been linked to eugenics and population control. It is rare that we get to see the truth of that, as reflected in today’s news.[1] The telling point is after the article stops talking about the necessity of population control (which is debatable), and starts bemoaning the focus on abstinence before [...]

Nationalized health care reluctantly makes the right decision

Friday, December 8th, 2006

But the real question is why, if Nationalized Health care is so good, so determined and obligated to provide for the health of all citizens, was this[1] ever in doubt?

BBC News. “NHS to fund girl’s costly drugs” BBC News 2006-12-08 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6161213.stm

Global Warming debunker partially reaffirmed

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

A month ago or so, I wrote about a lengthy paper published in an unscholarly forum that challenged any number of aspects of global warming.[1] [2] A few days later, I was informed that a rival, and equally unscholarly, forum challenged the assertions published in the first.[3] While I found the refutation to [...]

Accurate Hymns

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops decided last month in their fall meeting that it is time for the hymns sung in mass to be doctrinally correct.[1] This means that some of the excesses in the use of “inclusive” language should be curbed, and updating archaic language might be done more carefully. [...]

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