[Link] How to save gas, and avoid gas-saving myths
CNN Money has some helpful articles on saving fuel, and avoiding gas-saving myths.
Technology and rightness
This Associated Press piece on “designer babies” highlights how — for some — the ability to do something is sufficient grounds for its rightness: But Kathy Hudson, director of the Genetics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., said she’s not troubled by the work. She said the idea of successfully modifying babies by inserting … Read more
Obama misunderestimates the expanse of our country
Perhaps his staff used fuzzy math to compute the number of our Union? Ah, you gotta love these rumors on the internets…
[Link] How Tennessee’s Lofton quietly faced and beat cancer
Still think something can’t be kept quiet this day and age? How Tennessee’s Chris Lofton quietly faced and beat cancer
Darwinism and good
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Marilynne Robinson captures well a dilemma that occurs within Darwinism: Surely we must assume that a biosphere generated out of any circumstances able to sustain life is as good as any other, that if we make a desert, for example, and the god of survival turns his countenance upon the lurkers and … Read more
[Link] Anthony Esolen on “stay at home moms” and “housewives”
What’s In a Name? Anthony Esolen on “stay at home moms,” “housewives,” and the differences therein.
[Link] Man Takes Wifes Name in Marriage
Man Takes Wifes Name in Marriage: Perhaps we should all take up a collection to help him buy some dresses…
Spies like us
It’s a cold war redux as the government of Belarus cries “spy”: Belarus on Monday accused the United States of recruiting citizens into a spy ring aimed at undermining the ex-Soviet republic. The U.S. State Department said the allegation was “just ridiculous” and that the department was considering whether to close its embassy in Minsk. … Read more
Hidden in plain sight?
From a front-page story in today’s Washington Post on Internet safety: Alan Portillo didn’t think much, if at all, about his online vulnerability. Then the 15-year-old heard technology teacher Wendy Maitland list three pieces of information an online predator would need to find him. Birth date, she said. Alan’s age was on his e-mail. Gender. … Read more
Horsing around
Saturday marks the 134th running of the Kentucky Derby. For most of my life, I never paid much attention to it. I had watched it a few times on television, but never really understood its appeal — until I lived in Louisville, Kentucky for six years. The first spring I was there, I worked part … Read more