https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/638738666316283904 What this guy said. The media is having another one of those weird fawning moments over something Pope Francis never said that they wish he had said. The tweet above is CNN’s reaction to the Pope’s recent “move” with regards to abortion. Here’s Reuters: He has shown no intention of retracting the Church’s opposition…
Author: tsrblke
The Laws are for little people, not politicians
I’m posting from my class today, so this will be short so my boss and students don’t see that I’m slacking. Via the AP we have the nugget that punishment for Hillary! is unlikely. So much of this seems to hinge on the idea that nothing was marked classified, even though people I know who had…
Go set a Watchman, a brief review.
(Spoilers ahead, because I’m not going to try to figure out what’s a spoiler and what’s not.) So Harper Lee’s lost book was published a few weeks back. There was some controversy over the publishing of it due to Lee’s diminished capacity. I’m not going to go too deep into that because it’s complicated and…
The silence of the sheep
So I guess there’s an imbroglio at Duke over some assigned freshman reading book. (HT to Hogewash for this craziness.) Per the account at WaPo at least one student objects to reading the graphic novel because it depicts…shall we say “scandalous images” and leave it at that. This is a fucking family blog after all. For my…
Palate cleanser
Not to sweep aside the important discourse happening here, but with the outrage machine spinning up as it always does, every so often I am need a reminder there is good in the world. So here’s a picture form my daughter’s 6 month photo session. I look at these when I become world weary. Photo…
Things that haunt my nightmares
[I apologize in advance for the sort of stream of consciousness nature of this post, I’m writing it during a baby nap, which I think only adds to the effect.] As many of you who hang around the HQ know, I have a 7.5 month old daughter, who’s the joy of my life. I’m blessed…
The Reanimation of the Clinic’s corpse
“Foucault’s clinic is dead.” So starts Daniel Sulmasy’s book The Rebirth of the Clinic. My department chair will tell you that Sulmasy is referring to the clinic being spiritually dead. And that is clearly true (the entire book is on spirituality in medicine.) Yet Sulmasy goes through great effort to also portray the clinic as…