“I love both Bianca and Mirjam, so I am marrying them both.”-- Victor de Bruijn, a Dutch groom who "married" his two brides in a civil union ceremony in The Netherlands.
"If I did die, I wasn't going to heaven and say, 'Oh, excuse me, God. Let me wipe my nose, because I just did some drugs before I got here."
-- Ashley Smith who, after being abducted at gunpoint last March, told the media she was able to persuade quadruple murder suspect Brian Nichols to release her by talking about her faith in God and reading from The Purpose Driven Life. In her new book, Smith admits that she had the talk after Nichols had snorted some methamphetamine from her personal stash.
“Sex and drug use are more dangerous in some ways, I think, than we thought. This is a wake-up call for parents and others to say experimenting with these behaviors is not a good idea.”-- Dr. Denise D. Hallfors, on a study that finds teens’ use of sex and drugs “predicted an increased likelihood of depression” while depression did not appear to predict sex and drug use behaviors.
"I don't want to drive a car. I worked hard for my medical degree. Why do I need a driver's license?"-- Dr. Siddiqa Kamal, a female Saudi obstetrician and gynecologist. Kamal was one of many women who reacted coolly to the remark by Karen Hughes, a senior Bush administration official, that that Saudi women should be able to drive and "fully participate in society."
"God is the author of nature and evolution is a natural process. The two are compatible...not only that they are compatible, but that they are complimentary."-- Brown University biologist Kenneth Miller, an expert witness in the Dover 'Intelligent Design' trial. Miller conceded that in one sense he was a "creationist", since he attributed the laws of physics and chemistry to an “author of all things, seen and unseen.”
R. Eric Davis: Did [Andy] Warhol ruin art?
Sean Scully: No, I don't think Warhol ruined art because I don't find Warhol that important. You have to be very important to be able to ruin art.
-- Artist Sean Scully downplaying the significance of the famed pop artist in an interview. (HT: Zeitgeist)
"A new trend in the religious upbringing of children has recently emerged in the heart of the Bible Belt. "Home-churching," the individual, family-based worship of Jesus Christ, is steadily gaining in popularity, as more parents seek an alternative to what they consider the overly humanist content of organized worship."-- From the article "More Kids Being Home-Churched" in The Onion (Disclaimer: The Onion is a parody site.)
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I wonder how long it will be before The Onion's satire becomes a reality.
posted on 09.30.2005 11:41 AM2
“Sex and drug use are more dangerous in some ways, I think, than we thought. This is a wake-up call for parents and others to say experimenting with these behaviors is not a good idea.”
Out of curiosity, exactly how often do you hear "parents and others" advocate that teenagers experiment with sex and drugs?
While I think it's best that teenagers don't have sex or use drugs, this "study" sounds like media-induced pseudo-scientific psycho-babble to me. I hope the taxpayers didn't pay for it.
posted on 09.30.2005 1:12 PM3
The silence of Muslim women and Western feminists in regard to the Islamic oppression of women is deafening.
posted on 09.30.2005 7:54 PM4
…and reading from The Purpose Drive Life.I'm sure it was a simple oversight that resulted in the mis-identification of Rick Warren's The Purpose Driven Life. posted on 09.30.2005 9:35 PM
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"Overheard".......
"[Monsignor Eugene] Clark [rector of New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral] has long upheld the Vatican belief that homosexuals...want to destroy the institution of marriage....Now here is Monsignor Clark...exposed last week as engaging in an adulterous affair...proving that the greatest threat to marriage is in fact pompous hypocritical, heterosexual men who can't keep their %*#$ to themselves even as they become octogenarians.")--Michelangelo Signorile, August 20
So true, so true.
posted on 09.30.2005 10:13 PM6
I have never lived in Saudi Arabia. However, in West Africa, where I served for 9 years, driving yourself is OK, but having someone else drive you is a status symbol. A female medical doctor may be searching for that kind of deferential treatment. Just guessing.
posted on 10.02.2005 5:36 AM7
" “I love both Bianca and Mirjam, so I am marrying them both.”
-- Victor de Bruijn, a Dutch groom who "married" his two brides in a civil union ceremony in The Netherlands."
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Whoa, I'm confused. When I asked, if gender were no longer an issue in marriage, why should the number of participants be?--I was accused of using a "slippery slope" argument that was laughable and "slanderous". Now we see the Dutch allowing polygamy. So, can California and Vermont be far behind?
Life imitates rhetoric.
posted on 10.03.2005 12:56 AM