Judge Sotomayor, Empathize This! By Matthew May     We are told by our betters to accept prima facie Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's quite astonishing statement that the "richness" of her experience and derivative empathy automatically leads to better legal reasoning. Fine, let's accept it for a moment. But what exactly is so rich about her...

  ..... or, Why Our Standards Are Totally Screwed Up                 I never had much of an instinct for preening. When I was a kid, my mother had to practically hold me down to get the leaves out of my hair and the dirt off my face. Except for a brief, unfortunate period of makeup and hair experimentation...

About a week ago I posted an entry that asked the question "How Young Can A Christian Be?" The general consensus seems to be that you have to have some basic understanding of Christianity and what it means to be a Christian before you can say, "Yep, I'm a Christian." When is the typical person's mind developed enough to be capable of that kind of understanding? Seven seems to be about the...

I remember the cold mornings. The sleepy sun brushing against my white face that you refused –and still refuse- to call yours. In the school yard, looking up at the angry sky, it was weird how safe I felt buried in the that hoodie I loved so much. Wasn’t anything special. It wasn’t a shield nor an armour that could protect me from anything. But I felt safe hiding my face and...

Desire has dissipated in the space between my skin and these sheets, worn to a transparent film of waste, I wallow in the sweat of last nights nightmares, containing no hope for energy to spark the nerves that could drag me from this bed, motivation has withered in me like a grape untouched for years, dusty with time, I choke on the ashes of yesterdays, but sift through the...

"Tell me about friendship." And the Cosmos reeled that she who had been chosen should ask such a question. Nebulas impulsed in Becoming. Galaxies formed and blinked out and Angels sang a song of learning. The Most Beloved took her hand and they walked in His steps "Picture'", He said, "a field sown with seeds of infinite love. Observe how the plants...

Even as he betrays them on civil liberties and foreign policy by Justin Raimondo, May 22, 2009 If I were a liberal Democrat – and, as my regular readers know, this is very far from being the case – I’d be mad as heck over the way President Barack Obama has reversed himself on key foreign policy and civil liberties issues. I’d be positively furious about his...

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The echo of my thoughts provoke tears from my eyes, fears from my past, that you wont be home tomorrow, empty and stripped of all feeling, I want to shout to you, tell you now before time settles between the cracks of my dried lips, between the space that feels never-ending between us, I keep willing you to tell me what you feel when your eyes get glued to mine, I keep begging my...

I suppose the most obvious answer to that question is "The good Christians!" But how are we to determine who those "good Christians" are? Is it enough to simply have faith that the Christians in our lives are good until proven bad? Or should we look for some evidence of goodness in others before placing our trust in them? Which is the best approach to teach our children as a general...