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…
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Incentives Are A Sometime Thing
How to solve San Francisco’s homeless pooping problem While Mayor Ed Lee announced this week that “the homeless must leave the street” for Super Bowl 50, it’s more what they leave behind on the street that is a concern for the million or so people who have to walk a few blocks or a few…
Dear Mr. Trump
I am an unabashed conservative; one who holds dear the Constitution as a document that has helped to create American Exceptionalism, allowed and enforced the rule of law (until recently), and most of all limited the power of government to intrude into the lives of Americans. It is broken. The 1st Amendment is under constant…
Of Mussed Hair and Legacies
You want us to attack WHO?!” Barring something completely unforeseen (otherwise known as “a miracle”) the Iran deal will most certainly be approved by Congress, as the cynic in me has always believed it to be predestined, thanks to Corker-Menendez. For Iran, this means a green light to accelerate its nuclear program (if it doesn’t already have…
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…
“We protect the American people against terrorists and the instruments of terror.”
“NOW we got some steenkeeng badges!!!” James O’Keefe, a real journalist in the truest sense of the word, created quite a stink when in August of 2014, to illustrate the absurdity of the administration’s claim that our southern border was secure, waded across the Rio Grande dressed up as Osama Bin Laden. Suffice it to…
Another Round of Chick-fil-A Hate
The Denver City Council beclowns itself by delaying the acceptance of an application for a Chick-fil-A restaurant at the airport. All the usual suspects are belching up typical progressive, anti-freedom drivel, under the guise of their concern for “really, truly a moral issue on the city.” And of course the excellent and successful business acumen…
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…
Life Unworthy of Life. So, Can We Have Your Liver Then?
“Separated at birth. Oh, wait a minute…” Whatever one’s views on abortion, for anyone to be intellectually honest as well as not have a heart made of stone, the recent release of videos by the Center for Medical Progress cannot be viewed without complete revulsion. But, let’s leave that discussion for another time and focus in…
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…