The Suitable For Mixed Company Annex

Friday, June 16, 2006

Book note: Waiting for Your Cat to Bark?

re: getting front page play at Barnes & Noble today: Waiting for Your Cat to Bark?: Persuading Customers When They Ignore Marketing, by Bryan Eisenberg, Jeffrey Eisenberg, Lisa T. Davis...

Scotsman.com Heritage & Culture - Great Scots - Lord John Charles Walsham Reith

re: "father of the BBC", also the author of the autobiographical Into The Wind (1956) and Wearing Spurs (1966)...

Elephants in Academia: Some thoughts on Bush in Iraq from the mail bag

re: "an Air Force major specializing in Middle Eastern studies" shares some thoughts on the importance of President Bush's visit to Iraq...

CULTURE OF LIFE - Umbert 06.15.2006

re: cartoon about babies being able to cry in the womb...

Bookworm Room : Two countries, side by side

re: Israelis versus Palestinians. Includes info on new Alzheimer's treatment developed in Israel...

Jen Robinson's Book Page: 48 Hour Book Challenge this Weekend

re: another reading challenge...

Thursday, June 15, 2006

Bakercityherald.com: Archaeologists turn attention to Kam Wah Chung in John Day

re: another dig around the Kam Wah Chung Monday, June 19 through Saturday, June 24, with Public Archeology Day from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday with hourly led tours...

RobinsonforCongress.com

re: North Carolina race, with candidates that are pretty much polar opposites on the issues and worldview...

Rush Is Right: Great Ad from Vernon Robinson

re: Twilight Zone themed political ad...

Bookworm Room : The problem with Bridget Jones

re: good romances versus take-offs that miss the point...

wind scraps: news ... and tattling

re: combo post, part 'what funny thing my kid said' and part plug for the book The Groovy Chicks' Road Trip to Love...

Addition: More on the book from the publisher

Where Did I Learn the Most Useful Stuff for Living? - PalmTree Pundit

re: school versus other aspects of life, with references to the book The Marketing of Evil...

Scotsman.com Heritage & Culture - Ideas & Ingenuity - Scots father of the stealth fighter

re: a tribute to James Clerk Maxwell...

pioneer parenting

re: Mary E. DeMuth blog to go along with her book Building the Christian Family You Never Had: A Practical Guide for Pioneer Parents...

No Left Turns: Right. On.

re: The University of North Dakota stands up for its "Fighting Sioux" tradition...

Betsy's Page: A losing political agenda

re: Wal-Mart bashing doesn't even play well amongst Democratic voters, a Democratic pollster says...

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Program slashing deaths in U.S., Tucson hospitals

re: Jane Erickson of the Arizona Daily Star reports on Arizona progress and participation in the nationwide "100,000 Lives" campaign to improve hospital care and reduce preventable deaths in hospitals...

USATODAY.com - Hawaiian island chain will get national-monument status

re: "White House officials say Bush will elevate the area now known as the Northwestern Hawaiian Island Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve to national-monument status. The designation will immediately afford the region the strongest legal protections, with fishing and commercial operations being phased out over the next five years and visitors primarily limited to scientific researchers"...

David's Daily Diversions

re: "Cake and Safety"...

Illegal Work Booms in Berlin | Business | Deutsche Welle | 14.06.2006

re: some folks are estimating (guessing?) that "off-the-books" work makes up about a fifth of Berlin's GDP...

A Circle of Quiet: Creative deprivation

re: the benefits of not giving children too much stuff...

The American Thinker

re: Vasko Kohlmayer comments on "Zarqawi, Schiavo, and liberal madness"...

hat tip: Bookworm

Telegraph | News | 'Schools are letting boys down'

re: Dr. Tony Sewell says the educational system in the UK threw 'the boy out with the bath water' when it set about reforming schools to make them more girl-friendly. Dr. Sewell was set to speak at the Boys to Men: Teaching and Learning Masculinities in Schools and Colleges conference at the QEII Conference Centre in Westminster, London...

ADF: Pro-life healthcare groups fight California's attempts to criminalize right of conscience

re: "The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled Friday that California healthcare professionals must be allowed to intervene in a lawsuit to defend their right to refuse to provide abortions and abortion referrals..." Involves Weldon Amendment challenge...

ADF: Church forced from its building over "landscaping" rule wins over local government - Alliance Defense Fund - Defending Our First Liberty

re: church told it couldn't hold services until landscaping was complete...

Being Had - Prison Fellowship

re: Chuck Colson corrects something he said about Terri Schiavo in a recent commentary...

Baptisms at Disney resort reflect upswing in outdoor services - (BP)

re: "Southern Baptist churches are rediscovering the practice of public baptisms in local lakes as a byproduct of the SBC’s renewed emphasis on baptism."

Later in the article: "Everyone Can is the theme of the Southern Baptist Convention’s year-long emphasis on baptizing 1 million people."...

Mickey News - Baptists, Disney have faith in ability to work together

re: First Baptist Church of Orlando baptized more than a hundred people at a ceremony at a Walt Disney World lake, only the latest move in an effort to reconcile evangelicals with the Walt Disney corporation...

TCS Daily - Are You a Conservative?

re: Arnold Kling discusses the difference between liberals and conservatives, and says "What is distinctive about liberals is their belief that they are the only people who can exercise freedom with responsibility. They believe that a paternalistic government can make better decisions for those who [are] not in the elite."...

TCS Daily - The Wrath of Grapes

re: Stephen Bainbridge provides background on the red tape and regulation on wine sales, and reports on the battle to open up the market...

From Across The Fruited Plain: How Would Jesus Order a Cheesesteak?

re: Philadelphia is harassing a guy who put up a sign at his eatery asking folks to order in English...

Background links (courtesy RushLimbaugh.com): AP, Washington Post (August 12, 2003), and Philadelphia Inquirer.

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

I've found God, says man who cracked the genome - Sunday Times - Times Online

re: "Francis Collins, the director of the US National Human Genome Research Institute, claims there is a rational basis for a creator and that scientific discoveries bring man “closer to God”." His book, The Language of God, is to be published in September...

hat tip: The Alliance Alert (June 13, 2006)

Alaska Children's Books

re: the website for Alaska Children's Books, written and illustrated by the husband/wife team of Bernd and Susan Richter (hat tip: deadtree May 2006 Oregon Trail Ruralite magazine)...

Townhall.com :: Columns :: On the Seventh Day, God Rested and Liberals Schemed by Ann Coulter - Jun 6, 2006

re: Chapter One of Ann Coulter's book Godless...

Townhall.com :: Columns :: Bargaining with the devil by Burt Prelutsky - Jun 13, 2006

re: reading The Grapes of Wrath at age 11, and writing a book report on it...

Bookworm Room : On Michael Berg

re: on Michael Berg and the other pacifists who say President Bush is more evil than the man who slit Mr. Berg's son's throat. Michael Berg has been nominated by the Green Party to be its candidate for Delaware's congressional seat...

Jen Robinson's Book Page: More Cool Girls from Kid Lit

re: compiling a list of the coolest girls from children's literature (via Melissa.)

Here in the Bonny Glen: Can You Say It Five Times Fast?

re: "interesting reading in the kidlitosphere" (a word Melissa Wiley made up while writing this post)...

Ed Driscoll.com: Life Amongst The Carbon-Neutral

re: Al Gore and his movie...

Ed Driscoll.com: Utopia For Them Would Be Hell For Us

re: more theorizing "that terrorists are an offshoot of the 20th century modernist utopians"...

Downtown Rising by Nicole Gelinas

re: private-sector developer Larry Silverstein completes a 52-story Seven World Trade Center while the pols argue about what to do with Ground Zero just across the street...

It's This Bad by Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal Spring 2006

re: a look at today's England, in which the government seems more intent to be the engineer of souls than the protector of lives...

FOXNews.com - Federal Judge Nixes 'In God We Trust' Lawsuit - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News

re: California judge tosses Newdow lawsuit about "In God We Trust" on coins and bills. His second challenge to the Pledge's wording is still pending at the 9th Circuit...

Monday, June 12, 2006

The Paragraph Farmer: Thrust and parry: rebutting the professor

re: revisiting the Pope's visit to Auschwitz on May 28, and how it was reported and commented upon...

Jeff Jacoby: Demagogues and the marriage debate

re: a call to argue on the merits insteading of hurling insults...

OpinionJournal - Extra: A Middle Ground on Immigration

re: Mike Pence says yes to guest workers, no to amnesty...

The Common Room: Another Word for Judgment...

re: reasonable versus unreasonable judgments... (via PalmTree Pundit)

As I See It Now: Plants You Sit Back and Watch Grow

re: favorite plants that come up by themselves year after year...

Saturday, June 10, 2006

Salt Lake Tribune - The 5 Browns hitting all the right notes

re: piano-playing siblings about to embark on world tour...

Internet Public Library:

re: founded by University of Michigan' s School of Information, but soon 14 other schools will be taking part in developing and maintaining the site...

OpinionJournal - Taste: Food Fight

re: the "ethical eating" movement has split into warring camps...

Friday, June 09, 2006

Books by Church Reform Leaders and IRD Advisory Board Members - Institute on Religion and Democracy

re: Christian books promoted at The Institute on Religion and Democracy website...

Wordplay - Prison Fellowship

re: the Network of Spiritual Progressives and "The Slang of Spiritual Semantics"...

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Pennsylvania governor visits Barbaro

re: Governor Rendell presented a check for $13.5 million to the New Bolton Center, to be used for the completion of new veterinary medical facilities...

Thursday, June 08, 2006

The Anchoress : Cleanse your visual palate and move on!

re: various links to various topics...

Joust The Facts: In Case You Missed It ...

re: various links, plus math-centered book recommendation...

Achenbach's "Tempest" and the Global-Warming Skeptics: BLOG: SciAm Observations#more192

re: global warming believer calls skeptics loopy misfits...

Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Reflooding Restores Wildlife to Iraqi Marshes

re: some of Iraq's wetlands make amazing comeback...

hat tip: Best of the Web Today (which notes that the article doesn't note who drained the marshes, and who restored them).

Touchstone Magazine - Mere Comments: From the Inbox 3 June 2006

re: links to various things, including a series on "C.S. Lewis and Pulp Fiction"...

Where They Don't All Scream for Ice Cream - New York Times

re: booting an ice cream truck from a good location, rather than forcing mothers - and nannies - to tell their kids no...

hat tip: Mere Comments

Touchstone Magazine - Mere Comments: The Bonds of Egypt II

re: African-Americans, baseball, and the general disaster facing young black men in America...

Betsy's Page: Al Qaeda Leaders Are Going to be Even More Depressed

re: terror leaders must deal with finding out Zarqawi was killed following an inside tip, also, how terrorists use the media as one of their weapons of terror...

Betsy's Page: Nice Just Doesn't Cut It

re: how Canada is responding (and not responding) to the arrest of 17 Canadian terrorist suspects...

Betsy's Page: Akaka is Flushed

re: the Hawaiian separatists bill didn't quite make it to the U.S. Senate floor for debate...

Dr. Sanity: PSYCHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION

re: building a more resilient society, versus the socialist-environmental approach to deal with 'global warming'...

Dr. Sanity: BATMAN, EAT YOUR HEART OUT !

re: real life 'bat wings' instead of parachute...

Brandywine Books: Field-Tested Books

re: Summer reading.

Includes quote from James Finn Garner, "Summer reading should be, by definition, that which Fall-Winter-Spring reading is not. . . . I set aside Summer to enjoy the things no one is talking about. At my family cottage I have a personal rule to read only books more than 50 years old. In this way, modern novelists and their narcissistic obsessions get the heave-ho . . ."...

Insurance Discount for Women Who Refuse Abortion in Switzerland

re: thousands of women have signed up for "health insurance discounts to women who refuse abortions, in vitro fertilization and prenatal diagnosis"...

US Presbyterian Church Gropes Towards More Pro-Life Position

re: addressing when to consider abortion a "moral choice"...

Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Victory for Ursuline Academy in the Third Circuit

re: court recognizes Catholic school's right to fire an employee who publicly repudiated core moral teaching...

Fr. Joseph Woodill -- Why Dr. Welby is Forever Gone: A Very Brief Survey of Bioethics

re: from Ben Casey and company to disorientation in medical ethics...

Update: originally published here. (Jacob's Well, Fall-Winter, 1999-2000).

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Bookworm Room : All suffering is not created equal

re: museum exhibits that try to erase value differences in suffering...

Wittingshire: Fashion Statements

re: if someone wants to make a fashion statement, why shouldn't we listen?...

Daily Inklings : The 50Books Challenge

re: a community of people each aiming to read 50 books in 2006...

Daily Inklings : Remember D-Day: June 6, 1944

re: remembering D-Day...

Star-Telegram | 05/15/2006 | Church plans program counter youth violence

re: Baptists in Texas plan to take on a street fighting culture among teens, in part by providing men to mentor fatherless boys...

Star-Telegram | 05/26/2006 | Wedgwood Baptist's story still goes on

re: responding to a poll that picked his church as the location of the number one crime in the county in the last hundred years, the pastor of Wedgwood Baptist tells what's happened since 1999...

Bedford Bulletin: Cowboy Church to challenge ruling

re: from reporter John Barnhart, a story of a Virginia Cowboy Church that's been hit with zoning problems, because it meets in a building Bedford County has deemed 'agricultural'...

A Circle of Quiet: A summer challenge of a different sort

re: walking up and down hills...

Monday, June 05, 2006

OpinionJournal - Leisure & Arts: A Noble Virtue

re: Josiah Bunting III writes about honor, and about the book Honor: A History, by James Bowman...

Saturday, June 03, 2006

A Stone's Throw

re: An Orthodox Jew takes on the vandals in his East Cleveland neighborhood...

The Scotsman - Business - A cost-cutter's vision for cow of the future

re: advising farmers to get out of the beef market, and get most of their income from environmental good conduct payments...

The Scotsman - Business - Festival set to help out the green scene

re: the Edinburgh Treefest and Wood Market 2006, set to be held June 10 and 11...

Nazarene.org :Sunday School - A Hot New Buzz-Phrase in Bulgaria

re: Adult Sunday School is something of a new concept in Bulgaria, and it's fueling Nazarene church growth...

Friday, June 02, 2006

Stones Cry Out: Enron's Criminals Should Not Go To Prison; They Should Make Money for Their Victims

re: restorative justice...

Abortions over imperfections (post at Considerettes)

re: babies being aborted in the UK for easy to correct defects like club foot...

WORLD Magazine | Weekly News, Christian Views

re: Christopher Hitchens talks about the world, himself, and religion (he hates religion, he says) in an article available to the public until June 21, and to subscribers thereafter...

open book: If it's summer, it must be time for..

re: openly religious baseball...

Full Circle: Escape from Baghdad and the return

re: autobiography of Saul Silas Fathi...

Goodnight, John Boy - PalmTree Pundit

re: likes The Waltons and Little House on the Prairie, wonders what other television shows along those lines might be good to watch (they're watching on DVD)...