Author: Peony Moss

The importance of marriage

Cate Flanagan in TIME Magazine: There is no other single force causing as much measurable hardship and human misery in this country as the collapse of marriage. It hurts children, it reduces mothers’ financial security, and it has landed with particular devastation on those who can bear it least: the nation’s underclass. Two lovely links… Continue reading The importance of marriage

I *heart* Pope Benedict

Pope Benedict XVI gave President Barack Obama a surprise gift this evening: a copy of the Vatican’s document on bioethics and human dignity, which was published in December. The document, “Dignitas Personae” (”The Dignity of a Person”), was issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

7 Quick Takes from Peony

1. Michael Jackson: even his own funeral was a performance of sorts. And how did Rev. Sharpton get involved? Anyway, MJ needed Christ and he needed a good psychotherapist. I hope he found at least One at the last minute. 2. Sarah Palin: OODA: “You have to decode the environment before [your opponent] does, act… Continue reading 7 Quick Takes from Peony

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“…the Antichrist, with an air of scholarly excellence….”

Via dylan: And the Antichrist, with an air of scholarly excellence, tells us that any exegesis that reads the Bible from the perspective of faith in the living God, in order to listen to what God has to say, is fundamentalism; he wants to convince us that only his kind of exegesis, the supposedly purely… Continue reading “…the Antichrist, with an air of scholarly excellence….”

Palin to Resign as Alaska Governor on July 26

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/03/AR2009070301738.html?hpid=topnews Woah. My hope for her? I hope that when the Republican party comes crawling back to her, she tells them to go jump in the lake.

Lard is healthy?

Seriously? This shouldn’t surprise me. But how do you bake with lard in stuff like cookies? “Toldja so!” rant from Erik in 3… 2… 1…