Jun
7
Ann Coulter, Suuuuuuper Geeeeenius
June 7, 2006 | Leave a Comment
If anyone was operating under the assumption that Ann Coulter is a Deep Thinker, she has kindly provided them with proof to the contrary:
Cybercast News Service: Most people consider evolution to be a branch of science, or at least a scientific theory, yet in “Godless,” you refer to it as a “cult” and a “fetish.” [...]
Jun
7
We Are All Sinners
June 7, 2006 | Leave a Comment
That’s a common enough platitude in the Church these days, but Bishop Brown of Orange, California, seems to take it a little more seriously than most, because on his account just about every single person in this country is in a state of mortal sin every time they recite the Creed at Mass.
Whhhaaaahhh? you might [...]
Jun
7
Anti-Intellectualism
June 7, 2006 | Leave a Comment
There’s an interesting item, with thoughtful comment, at Darwin Catholic regarding Ramesh Ponnuru’s new book, Party of Death. Apparently, Peter Berkowitz and John Derbyshire have found the pro-life argument too logically coherent, grounded in some sort of inappropriate rationalism. Feelings can be reasons, too, they say: if I feel that a fetus is important, then [...]
Jun
7
It’s Never My Fault
June 7, 2006 | Leave a Comment
There was an interesting item in yesterday’s Best of the Web. A lawyer from Virginia who goes by “Dana L.” when she’s online complains that she was, in a certain sense, forced to have an abortion by the Bush administration. Writing in the Washington Post (where else?) she tells a story about how she got [...]
