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There is a really interesting discussion going on between Kelly and Edgar in the comments at the Power and Control post Sanctification. May I suggest a read?

Clayton Cramer is irritated by the loss of privacy in men’s rooms, caused by the removal of doors to toilet stall doors. Apparently the door removal is being mandated by governments which want to prevent homosexual conduct. …Ladies, you may not be aware of this, but in many public men’s rooms, especially in roadside rest…

I just got a comment at one of my blog posts on the attitude Real Republicans™ should take towards homosexuals. I ain’t naming names or quoting the rest of the text but here is the gist of it: Leviticus 18:22 [22] You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it…

Perhaps I’m a callused and insensitive bastard, but I’m well aware that unless they are eaten alive (which happens only in certain other countries it is racist to criticize), animals have to be killed before being eaten. While animal rights activists and radical vegans do not like this, people who eat meat obviously accept the…

I have always wondered why Christian social conservatives have trouble with gay marriage. Most Christian social conservatives have no problem with domestic partnerships. So it can’t be legal rights. So I’m guessing here that since they are always going on about the sacredness of marriage it must be something else. Holy matrimony. And what are…

Scientists are finding surpising value in the daily use of small amounts of marijuana. Ohio State University scientists are finding that specific elements of marijuana can be good for the aging brain by reducing inflammation there and possibly even stimulating the formation of new brain cells. Their research suggests that the development of a legal…

Some times you can tell a lot about the future by looking at the past. The past I want to look at was the Bush/Kerry, Keyes/Obama election results in Illinois from 2004. I’m going to repost a bit I did then in its entirety. Jack Ryan was the Republican who Obama’s confederates got kicked off…

In a move sure to piss off gay activists (who are already seething over the passage of Prop 8 with heavy black support), Barack Obama has decided to delay the implementation of his campaign promise to jettison the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy: President-elect Barack Obama will not move for months, and perhaps not…

I ♥ Sarah’cudda Cross Posted at Power and Control

Speaking of shameful things that ought to be kept in the closet, here’s another oldie but a goodie… “Distinguishing Vultures from Lawyers” Useful to know how, isn’t it? While that print hangs proudly on my wall, it wasn’t appreciated by a humor-free law firm I worked for years ago…..

During the past year, everyone saw what happened when garbage loans on overvalued real estate were misrepresented and sold as triple-A-rated securities. The bubble eventually burst. But not quite as many people are aware that the bubble has also burst in the art world — to the point where a series of the most important…

My earlier post about fear of religious conservatives does not discuss something which I think is related to this fear, and that is closeted conservatism. I’ve been thinking about this a lot since the drive from Ann Arbor to Berkeley. In either place, having a McCain sign in your front yard is an invitation to…

Jonah Goldberg is discussing his book Liberal Fascism at Salon. I don’t have any problem with liberals or conservatives criticizing stuff that goes on in the popular culture … [I]t’s when you want to dragoon the state into these things, everything from hate crimes to these early interventions in childhood. You read “It Takes a…

We have a contingent in America that wants to treat us all like children when it comes to economics and another contingent that wants to treat us like children when it comes to culture. Two different kinds of nanny state. I’m against the nanny state. Cross Posted at Power and Control

I came across an interesting discussion of abortion at Admiral Quixote’s Round Table. This is from the comments. I spoke with my dh who did receive smicha (Orthodox) though he is not a practicing Rabbi; he learned the law as I have earlier stated; that if any harm came it was referring to the woman…

Here is a bit of text that I think many of you will find very interesting. The Jewish distinction (rooted in the original Hebrew text) between the life of the mother and the life of the child is emphasized in a striking text of the Mishnah (Ohalot 7:6): “If a woman has difficulty in childbirth,…

I just found a most interesting document giving in layman’s terms the Jewish position on abortion [pdf]. The document is authored by Rabbi Raymond A Zwerin and Rabbi Richard A. Shapiro. It is a very interesting document and only four pages long so it is well worth a read. It also provides a basis for…

This lovely item got water-damaged, but its supreme commie kitsch shlockiness seems unaffected. It’s a combination thermometer and inexplicable calendar, plus a faux “TV screen” in the middle showing Chairman Mao being given a floral bouquet by Chou En Lai, while Comrades Chu De and Lin Piao beam radiantly. I picked it up at a…

Yeah. That is a funny spelling of potato. It is former Vice President Dan Quayle’s trademark. Well Mr. Quayle is at it again. He is global investing chief of Cerberus Capital Management which owns Chrysler. And of course Chrysler wants in on the proposed auto bail out. Let’s assume that the powers in Washington —…

Part Two of the video is here. Reform Jews speak out in favor of Medical Marijuana. The Union Of American Hebrew Congregations favors Medical Marijuana. Here is a short bio of one of the participants in the video. William Martin, Ph.D. taught criminology for 35 years. He has chaired the Department of Sociology and at…