Hi Ho, Hi Ho, it’s off to Home Depot we go

To buy incandescent lightbulbs and store in the crawl space until the end of time. How many lightbulbs does one purchase to last forever? Or until the government can back off enough to allow me to buy the damn lightbulbs I’d like. You know, the ones that don’t require a haz-mat crew in case I drop one. Pogues. To complicate matters: [...]

The miracle of life (and the choice of barrenness)

Two things caught my eye today (because I sat down long enough to read!) In the first, via Pundette, Mark Steyn contrasts the miracle of life as witnessed in Luke’s Gospel to the barrenness-by-choice of today’s society. He writes: That bit of the Christmas story doesn’t get a lot of attention, but it’s in there — Luke [...]

Is forcing your baby to cry it out dangerous?

You betcha. Subscribers to this barbaric practice told me for years that the only reason my kid didn’t sleep through the night was because I was incapable of allowing her to “cry it out.” We had a wrinkle in the plans, with her post-nasal drip, which after incessant crying, usually led to choking on snot, [...]

Saying Merry Christmas is worse than fornication…

…or getting drunk or even killing someone… So says an Islamic scholar. And…ready for a firestorm…..I agree with him….. What I mean is…if this man believes that Allah is the true god and there is no other god than Allah….to acknowledge and to encourage and to “bless” if you will a false god IS worse [...]

Separating the legitimate conservatives from the rest

Rather than the hypocrite or megalomaniac, you, too, have choices according to Rush Limbaugh, who listed Perry, Bachmann, and Santorum as legitimate conservatives. Pundette has the story. I’m more than a little stunned that he made a comment like this during the primary.  Perry, by the way, is rising in the polls. Ken Klukowski says don’t count [...]

Is premarital sex today less “evil” than it used to be?

Walter Russell Mead says yes. He writes: The core truth is that premarital sex is less evil today than it used to be.  It remains, as moral theologians say, wrong in itself, we Christians believe, and that is a quality that does not change.  But premarital sex is less of a sin against other people [...]

Wipeout

Stomach virus, 3, PJ household 0. Dominoes we were in the path of this monster. A million Popsicles later, we seem to be on the mend. The IV is the greatest medical invention ever. More later.

Who is the pro-life candidate?

Not the one who told abortion activists that he thought Republicans weren’t doing themselves a “favor” by being so “vehemently anti-choice.” Not the one who thinks embryonic stem cells can be harvested because life begins at implantation, either. Who does that leave? Oh, the one who defunded Planned Parenthood in his state, effectively shuttering the doors [...]

Who needs credit cards, eh?

When you can pay for your jumbo crab legs with food stamps? Unreal. From a seafood market in DC: Makes sense from a retailer’s standpoint: if 15% of the national population uses a special government card, then why not garner some of that business? Especially if that population numbers higher in your specific area? Nothing like word-of-mouth [...]

“My purpose was never to be the President of the United States.”

So said Rick Perry last night at the Huckabee forum last night (H/t: Dan Riehl on twitter). More: “I’ve lived a purpose-driven life, and my purpose was never to be the President of the United States, but our country is in trouble and our country needs us working together to take our country back. So [...]