Some thoughts from Claire Berlinsky’s father.
I’m not sure that I believe that all men are mortal.
This was interesting today, because I was thinking about writing a piece about Michele Bachmann and Marxists. I’ll let you figure out the relevance.
[Update a couple minutes later]
I imagine on some blogs, it would make more sense to say that Claire is David’s daughter.
Some useful thoughts on the gay marriage issue, from Kevin Williamson. I haven’t had time to think about it a lot, but I suspect I will agree (and that, like my opinion on Roe v Wade, is entirely independent of my opinion on the underlying issue), because I don’t think this will be solved until we separate church and state in the matter.
The Tea Party is the Mule.
…in the latest Slate attack on libertarianism.
…versus Rousseau. This is why I refuse to dignify leftists with the word “liberal.”
[Afternoon update]
I liked this comment on the debate with a Perry/Obama race:
Candidate Perry: My state gained a million jobs with no state income tax and a part-time legislature that meets every other year.
Candidate Obama: But Bush was my predecessor. I inherited what he left.
Candidate Perry: Ditto.
Heh.
I’m still here.
Either it didn’t happen, or there aren’t very many righteous people.
Hey, wouldn’t it be a hoot if they got it wrong, and what really happens is that your clothes are shot to paradise, but your body gets left behind?
I am completely unsurprised by this:
In a recently screened BBC documentary called ‘Secrets of the Superbrands’, UK neuroscientists found that the brains of Apple fans are stimulated by images of Apple products in the same areas as those triggered by religious imagery in a person of faith. According to the scientists, this suggests that the big tech brands have harnessed, or exploit, the brain areas that have evolved to process religion.
At least they’re not Scientologists. Well, OK, maybe some of them are.
A smack down of Michael Gerson, who never fails to unimpress. And, as Glenn notes, there is nothing generous about being charitable with other peoples’ money.
…should have been rewritten by Ace.
As promised earlier, I have more thorough thoughts over at Pajamas Media.