Today, responsibility was the theme for postings on two different blogs that I read on a semi-regular basis. The first posting was on La Shawn Barber’s Place and addressed a woman’s personal responsibility for her sexual activity exposing her to the possibility of AIDS–Simple Girls Guide For Avoiding AIDS. It was in part a response…
Category: News and Commentary
Conflict and War, News and Commentary, Philosophy, Politics and Government, Terrorism
What Is Deterrence And Why Should I Care?
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Deterrence – 1. The act or a means of deterring. 2. Measures taken by a state or an alliance of states to prevent hostile action by another state or group. That is the plain vanilla definition, but I suggest you go over to Eject! Eject! Eject! and read his article on deterrence for a discussion…
News and Commentary, Politics and Government
Debating The Debate
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I rarely write directly on political matters. It is not that I do not have opinions, I do, and a Presidential debate is something I would enjoy engaging, but today my thoughts are on the funeral of a young friend and his unexpected passing has left me a bit washed out. However, riding to the…
Christianity, News and Commentary, Politics and Government
Never Forgotten
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I have been thinking a lot lately about how the storage of information, especially now in our era of things like the web and Google, is like a person who never forgets. For most of us who write regularly, that means things we have written, sometimes in an offhanded manner or simply as comments on…
Media, News and Commentary, Politics and Government
GateKeepers, Gutenberg, And The New Media
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There is a war breaking out all over our culture. It is not between Islamists and defenders of the West though that war is real. It is not between Democrats and Republicans though sadly that war appears to be real also. No, it is between the former gatekeepers of information and expression and the new…
Culture & Social Issues, News and Commentary, Politics and Government
Indicting The Democrats
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Matt Wretchard of the Belmont Club, one of the most, if not the most, insightful blogs analyzing military issues and other insights related to the War on Terror, yesterday wrote one of the most stinging indictments of the Democratic Party and what it has done to John Kerry that I have ever seen. Titled Both…
Art, Literature and Entertainment, News and Commentary
Ben Stein And Me
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Ben Stein is three years older than I am, but the circles in which he has run are light years from mine. He is a writer and actor who visits with Samuel L. Jackson and Warren Beatty and I once ate with John Stott and another time sat at a table with Malcom Muggeridge. However,…
Media, News and Commentary, Politics and Government
All Sail, No Anchor
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I read George Will only sporadically, but I did catch his Wednesday article on Ignoring History In Iraq in the Washington Post. (Note: the link requires registration and will only work for two weeks or so when it will go into the paid archives). One sentence in the article caught my attention: A government that…
News and Commentary
Unintended Consequences
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Reuters has published a story (see Yahoo News) on the anti-depressant Prozac being found in drinking water. The last sentence of the article noted, “Prescription of anti-depressants has surged in Britain. In the decade up to 2001, overall prescriptions of antidepressants rose from 9 million to 24 million a year, the paper said.” One wonders…
Art, Literature and Entertainment, Culture & Social Issues, News and Commentary, Politics and Government, Religion
Serendipitous Find
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One of my favorite things about the Internet, in which the blogosphere lives and moves and has its being, is serendipitously finding a really good insight or a person who seems to get to the heart of the matter. I had one of those fortunate accidents today when I discovered the blog Random Observations (a…