Blogworthies XXIV

Because The Blog from the Core simply can't cover everything.

Noteworthy entries @ The Belgravia Dispatch, The Tower, The Remedy, Discriminations, Slings and Arrows, Cor ad cor loquitur, Flos Carmeli, Mere Comments, Apologia, The Truth Laid Bear, Dust in the Light, Dyspeptic Mutterings, The Moderate Voice, I love Jet Noise, JustOneMinute, and Summa Contra Mundum.

The Berger Follies: The NYT Has No Shame @ The Belgravia Dispatch:

Rarely have I seen a major newspaper play a story in such brazenly partisan fashion.

It truly beggars belief....

Father God, Mother Church @ The Tower:

In an article titled "Imaging God as Partners", Margaret Starbird elaborates upon what she seems to perceive as the fundamental flaw in Christianity, the worship of an all-male God to the exclusion of any feminine principle. I want to address this article here....

Live-And-Let-Live vs. No Right To Do Wrong @ The Remedy:

Last week I wrote the letter below to the Wall Street Journal, but it appears it will not be published, so I make it available here for readers of The Remedy: ....

Who Benefits From AA? @ Discriminations:

The Chicago Sun Times had an article two days ago asking "who really benefits from colleges' affirmative action." You may want to read it because all I'm going to do here is respond serially to some quotes from and assertions in it....

When Would Be a Good Time For You? @ Slings and Arrows:

It occurred to me last night that the Democrats are always whining about the "timing" of news developments. So, I thought I'd Google it. Let's look at Republicans first: ....

Reflections on the Development of Doctrine @ Cor ad cor loquitur:

[Quotations from several authors.]

What Does DVC Say About Us as a Society? @ Flos Carmeli (quoted ellipsis in original):

Yesterday T.S. O at one of my favorite blogs Video Meliora made a point concerning The DaVinci Code that I'm not quite certain I agree with, and yet I find fascinating. In context it reads:

The only answer I have to that is that, whatever their merits, Crichton & Clancy & others are living off the fame of their past books. They are a name brand now and could put out anything and it would sell. The key is their FIRST book, their break-out book. DVC is Brown's break-out book and there is something in a breakout book that might say something about a culture...

Now, let me set aside any misgivings I may have about the premise — they are as yet poorly formulated and more along the lines of murky stirrings in the depths more than fleshed-out thoughts. Let's accept the premise that this breakout book reveals something about the culture. Does it reveal anything new, interesting, or exciting....

Vice Culture? @ Mere Comments:

Some years ago, gambling, drug use, and pornography were outside the normal bounds of respectability. An uncle or grandfather would not casually introduce a young nephew or grandson to these things without being viewed as corrupting the young man....

Sugar High @ Apologia:

I'm a sicko. I was in the grocery store the other day to pick up a gallon of milk and perhaps one other household necessity, like soap or toilet paper, and right inside the entranceway was a table stacked high with lemon meringue pies. Usually it's filled with marble and creme cakes and I walk by with no problem. It's the lemon creme cakes that often give me a window-shopping pause. I like lemon. A lot. And most any dessert with fruit in it. The bakery's immediately on your right when you enter the store, so it's just about the first thing you see, and certainly the first you smell: pies, puddings, cookies, cheesecakes, and danish. The people who work there aren't diabetic and they ain't stupid. Actually, some of them are, but it doesn't take a whole lot of brain to know the junk food goes up front....

Who Watches the Watchers? @ The Truth Laid Bear:

The LA Times' Alex Jones sniffs disapprovingly at bloggers in what Stephen Green accurately describes as a hit piece yesterday, tut-tutting that simply because bloggers have credentials for the conventions, that doesn't make them real live Journalists-with-a-capital-J....

A One-Principle Morality @ Dust in the Light:

Too many points beg reply among the record-setting (for this blog) sixty-two comments to this post from last week for me to incorporate them into a single entry, so I'll address them discretely as I'm able throughout the evening and, if necessary, into tomorrow. With this first, although in response to a relatively late comment, I'd like to address an all-too-common misunderstanding of the way in which our government works....

Amy's Choice. @ Dyspeptic Mutterings:

In the East Village of Manhattan lives one Ms. Amy Richards. She is a writer and lecturer who decided that she was a little too pregnant for her hip lifestyle....

Are Bloggers At Conventions Deluding Themselves? @ The Moderate Voice:

Are bloggers at conventions deluding themselves into thinking they're "real" journalists because they'll be out in the fray, reporting from the field?...

The Agony And The Anomie: The Triumph of Multiculturalism @ I love Jet Noise:

I hesitate to call this lengthy essay a 'must-read', as I suspect this elicits a perverse impulse to click on the tiny 'x' at the top right corner of the IE window. But if you don't have time to read it today, consider book-marking it. Better yet, save it to your desktop so you don't forget about it.

Multiculturalism has invaded our culture, our discourse, schools, history books, politics, news reporting, language, and even, sadly, our private thoughts. Last night as the Unit and I perused the political talk shows, we were struck by the stilted debate over George Bush's refusal to meet with the NAACP. In marked contrast to other debates, the discussion was suddenly constrained by the convention of referring to blacks, not by the simple term denoting their skin color (oddly considered acceptable for 'whites'), but by the term "African-American". This, despite the undeniable fact that many American blacks hail, not from Africa, but from places other than the Dark Continent. But I suppose Caribbean-American would have been a bridge too far....

What I Didn't Find In The NY Times @ JustOneMinute:

With a Sunday piece titled "New Reports Again Question Whether Iraq Sought Uranium in Niger", Richard Stevenson and David Johnston of the NY Times tiptoe up to the issue of the Times reporting on the President's "16 Words"....

Sunday Obligations and Mortal Sin @ Summa Contra Mundum:

A commentor asked how God could damn someone to hell for not going to church on Sunday. I liked my response so much I'm stealing it for the blog. Here it is: ....

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sat. 07/24/04 08:37:40 AM
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