Archive for the ‘Food For Thought’ Category
Saturday, November 18th, 2006
I had to scratch my head when I saw this story the other day about the incidence of depression at the University of Montana campus.
Depression and suicidal thoughts among University of Montana students reached the point that university administrators recently decided to hire a psychiatrist, in an effort to help ...
Posted in Food For Thought, Montana | 1 Comment »
Thursday, November 16th, 2006
All my sinestra pals make a loud noise about how great a hike in minimum wage is.
If that is so good, why don't we take it a step further?
Not only should we have a price floor policy on wages, shouldn't we also have a price ceiling policy on necessities, such ...
Posted in Econ, Food For Thought | 20 Comments »
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006
This column, by John Stossel brings up some interesting points on "white privilege" from Shelby Steele, who actually grew up and experienced segregation.
More from Stossel.
The conclusions:
Does it exist? Possibly.
Is whitey to blame? Not necessarily.
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Sunday, October 22nd, 2006
To me, one of the most odious arguments you hear from the pro-death crowd (euthanasia and abortion) is the "quality of life" argument. This comes from folks who would argue to abort Downs syndrome babies, or other handicapped children because of their quality of life.
To argue that such a ...
Posted in Faith, Family, Food For Thought | 34 Comments »
Sunday, October 22nd, 2006
You, know, the ones who look at your Stephen King collection and say in their haughtiest voice, "Oh, my good man, how droll. I spend my time reading only non-fiction that I hear about on NPR. And because of that I have an empathy that you clods could ...
Posted in Food For Thought, Humor | 2 Comments »
Thursday, October 19th, 2006
If you were raised in the '80's, you probably remember the advent of MADD.
MADD's goal upon inception was to toughen DUI laws, and get the legal BAC down to .10 in all 50 states, which it did, and now the limit is .08.
To read this, and other position statements, it ...
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