Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
There is a pregnancy epidemic right now at the high school where I used to run a girls’ group. All the time I am shocked and saddened to see another young girl with a growing belly or another with babe in arms. There is no stigma at all. Whatever happened
Continue readingI love my son dearly and he dearly loves me right back. He’s bright, exceptionally well-coordinated and, if I do say so myself, he’s very good-looking. He’s also selfish, hyper-competitive, lazy, ill-mannered and a total slob. I have been working for years on all those traits and there has definitely
Continue readingI have friends who have taught in inner city schools. Without exception, they have told me that, if a child’s parents are drug-addled, the school lunch may be the only meal the child gets. There is a tremendous virtue to feeding starving children. Having said that, I found revealing a
Continue readingDo you think this story is real or a hoax? If real, it’s terribly disturbing. If it’s a hoax, well, it’s also terribly disturbing that someone would do something like that. Right now, Noisy Room is assuming it’s real but, because NR is committed to honest reporting, any useful information
Continue readingMore than a hundred years ago, writing in a deeply religious era, Robert Browning observed “Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?” Perhaps it’s no surprise that today, in a society with a pop and media culture dominated by secularists who have abandoned
Continue readingThere is a post zooming around the liberal side of the internet, in which a mom says her son is gay . . . no, he’s not . . . yes, he is . . . who really cares? The genesis for this post was the fact that her 5
Continue readingThis is the kind of thing my kids have to suffer through: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxvUYivCMpE[/youtube]
Continue readingSome of you may have been aware of a very ugly situation that started when NewsRealBlog concluded that one of its contributors (not an employee, but a contributor), displayed a truly unhealthy sexual interest in young children. Although the editors at NewsRealBlog are conservative, they also respect an individual’s right
Continue readingSome days seem to crystallize some of our society’s more discouraging trends. In my mental health work on the front lines I see a great deal of what the chattering classes cluelessly opine about. Today, for some reason, I saw, one after the other, a series of young women with
Continue readingBy now you’ve all read that Levi Johnston is backing off from the slanders he stated about the Palin family and, to give him credit, he’s doing so public. What intrigued me was the fact that he attributed his lies to “youthful indiscretion.” Aside from the fact that he told
Continue readingI was at my child’s school the other day, and happened to glance at the daily handout the children receive. It had the usual special announcements and ended with “Today’s Patriotic Quotation.” I was rather pleased to see that there was a patriotic quotation included (on a daily basis, yet).
Continue readingThe dodo, as you may recall, is extinct. I wonder, though, how many people remember why the dodo became extinct. It was because, lacking any serious natural predators in their homeland of Mauritius, the dodos were a bit too friendly to incoming colonists (and their animals), and simply allowed themselves
Continue readingTwo days ago, I brought to your attention the fact that the San Francisco School Board — despite facing a $113 million dollar budget shortfall over the next two years, despite its admission that it will be cutting summer school and academic programs, and despite the fact that there has
Continue readingAs you have probably guessed from my blog silence this weekend, I have been heavily engaged in various family activities, many of which seemed to involve soccer balls or (this weekend) footballs. I haven’t had lots of time to think about current events (which must, in any event, take a
Continue readingThis is an entirely hypothetical scenario, because my daughter is only 12, and I’m not planning on her dating for at least another fifteen or twenty years, if not more. However, the sad fact is that, contrary to my entirely reasonable wishes, the dating scene is going to start in
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