The lie of keeping it real – A review of Losing My Cool: How a Father’s Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture by Thomas Chatterton Williams

If you have not been reading this blog for long, and perhaps “reading” is an insufficient word here, perhaps you are confused whether it is a photo blog or a poetry blog or blog presenting prose pieces. The answer to this question is “Yes.” It is clear that photography takes up most of its real [...]

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“Teen rebellion – a Western export?”

Last spring I wanted to write an article for catapult exploring whether teen rebellion was a uniquely American phenomenon, or if not uniquely American, then at least a phenomena that seems to reach its fullest expression here. I decided ultimately that I did not have the time to really do justice to the topic, though [...]

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And I Say Unto You, Behold, the Ovaries are Red Unto Harvest. And the Biotech Companies Begin to Draw Their Wages.

OK, so that is a little bitter and shrill blog post title. I was quite disappointed last night when I saw the gap closing on the lead that the “No” votes had in the Amendment 2 vote. I pretty much could guess the conclusion and went to bed. I am not a Republican, but do [...]

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Amendment 2

This is a rather late plea to have you, those of you who are Missouri voters that is, consider voting “No” on Amendment 2 tomorrow. There are several compelling reasons to do so: 1) First the ethical ones. In a previous post on this blog I have decried the problem of the large number of [...]

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400,000 Frozen Embryos

This morning on the way into work listening to NPR, they were predicting that the Senate would pass a bill expanding stem cell research, as indeed it has. I have begun to part company with President Bush on several of his policies, however, I am very pleased that he has promised to veto this bill. [...]

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Catholiscism, contraception, abortion, pornography, the environment, C.S. Lewis, separation of church and state, Islam, and pizza

This story has got it all.

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NPR on Speed Dial

Well, to be more specific it is actually the local affliate, KWMU, which is on the speed dial. This morning on a local show called St. Louis on the Air they had some scientists discussing stem cell research. It was not a show about the ethics of it, but rather the science of it. Of [...]

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Of Blasphemy and Secularism

Many, many years ago I read an article which made the case that Europe is a time bomb waiting to explode. The author noted the negative population trends of white, mostly secular, Europeans and the positive population growth of immigrant and guest worker populations in European countries. Why this mixture makes for a time bomb [...]

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Frist Steps

There was a time when I could not hold back, for good or for ill. There was a time when I could not simply listen to a conversation involving issues upon which I had deep opinions and keep silent. I had to let my opinions be known, both, wrongly, because I so valued my individual [...]

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Bombing in London….Fallout in St. Louis

I have always admired free spirits. In fact, many of the people I am attracted to and befriend are exactly that. I think this is so because in some way I am making up for a desire for free spiritedness in my own soul that for whatever reasons I have never let fully germinate and [...]

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