My helpful Devil’s advocate has pointed out some limitations of the moral tool I laid out in yesterday’s post. He may be right, but the basic spirit behind my post is that of a liberal trying to find her moral high ground. The Right is good at making moral arguments. The Left often tries to […]

News from abroad
Police raided Gandhi Park in Meerut, India and slapped a bunch of couples for sitting together in “objectionable poses.”
Closer to home
Two California girls got expelled from their Lutheran school because their principal thought they were acting gay.
Now, David Foster Wallace, whose excellent essays I’ve just been reading, tells us to have a Democratic […]

NYT’s “The Cute Factor,” accompanied by adorable penguin and panda pictures, totally had me until this sentence:
The 6-month-old, 25-pound Tai Shan - whose name is pronounced tie-SHON and means, for no obvious reason, “peaceful mountain” - is the first surviving giant panda cub ever born at the Smithsonian’s zoo.
Why, I wondered, did reporter Natalie […]