Grief There used to be ways to mourn the ones you lose, like dressing in Victorian black the rest of your life or taking a week off work. Grieving’s still called a process by some who think you need to take it one step at a time one step after the other till the pit […]
U.K. Climatologists Not Part of Leftist-Nazi Cabal
The New York Times reports that a second independent panel, of scientists has cleared climate researchers at the University of East Anglia of allegations that they distorted the scientific evidence for human-caused global warming. “There was no hint of tailoring results to a particular agenda,” an independent panel of scientists said in a report submitted […]
Veils of Ignorance
Over at Normblog today, Norm considers the situation of a Quebec Muslim woman ordered to unveil or leave French course, as the Globe and Mail headlined it. Norm thinks the order of the Quebec (? – this was unclear from the G&M story) Immigration Department an instance of “rank, crass illiberalism.” Norm has written about […]
Yom Hashoah
Yom Hashoah is Holocaust Remembrance Day, in Israel and amongst Jews. You can learn a little bit about the day and its origins here. You can get a sense of just how profoundly the day is experienced in Israel from Yaacov Lozowick. The day is a day of remembrance. Human beings find much of their […]
Until the Mess Comes Along
Garret Dillahunt’s Wendell, deputy to Tommy Lee Jones’ Sheriff Ed Tom Bell in the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men, looking over the carnage of a drug smuggler shoot out in the West Texas desert: “It’s a mess.” Sheriff Bell in reply: “If it isn’t, it’ll do until the mess comes along.” And the […]