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Truth or Consequences
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awelborn
Blogger Will Duquette sends this along: Apparently my review of Dies the Fire by S.M. Stirling left Mapletree7 of the blog A Book A Day at a loss for words. I had said the following: I was also interested in Stirling’s choice of Wiccans as his protagonists. Juniper Mackenzie is kind, intelligent, and clearly sincere…
Mel, Flannery, and Rod
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awelborn
Rod Dreher in the DMN: Flannery O’Connor, who died 42 years ago this month, was an astute observer of the kind of progressive-minded Southerner who had been educated out of his prejudices, but who in truth traded one form of self-righteousness for a more insidious one. In two of her greatest stories, "Everything That Rises…
Take a break – if you can
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awelborn
And use your time well… from today’s Angelus, translation courtesy of Teresa Benedetta: Dear brothers and sisters, In this summer season, many have left the cities and are in tourist destinations or in their hometowns for their annual vacation. To them I wish that this awaited period of rest may serve to refresh the mind…
None dare call it eugenics
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awelborn
But what else is it? Charles Colson the latest: In the absence of such a test for autism, researchers at University College Hospital London are settling for what they call a “close enough” solution. They have applied for permission to use pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, or PGD, to screen out male embryos in families with a…
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