Love Humans or Love Humanity Plus
Things go bad fast. In his book Intellectuals, historian Paul Johnson offered a pejorative definition of intellectuals. He said a certain type of intellectual is a person who loves their ideas more than people.
February 2021
June 2019
Answering Vulgarity with Grace
Transcript Miley Cyrus blew up social media with a picture of her licking a cake with “Abortion is Healthcare” written in icing. It’s exactly the kind of vulgar over the top provocations that are so popular with celebrities and social media warriors these days. Jim Carrey recently posted a drawing of a fetal Alabama Governor [...]
May 2019
Worst Imaginable Scenarios
Transcript In the wake of new laws restricting abortion, social media exploded with stories about child rape victims potentially being forced to carry their children to term, women facing terrible unnamed illnesses being put at risk as the lives of their unborn offspring are prioritized, and women being forced to carry a child suffering tortuous [...]
No Social Security Number Needed, Just Don’t Kill Them
Transcript Recently a friend texted a meme to me that read: If a fetus is a person at 6 weeks pregnant, is that when child support starts? Is that also when you can’t deport the mother because she’s carrying a U.S. citizen? Can I insure a 6-week fetus and collect if I miscarry? Just figuring [...]
Alyssa Milano’s Cynical Ploy
Alyssa Milano, the actress who now wishes to be known primarily as an activist for progressive values, recently Tweeted the following: “Our reproductive rights are being erased. Until women have legal control over own bodies we just cannot risk pregnancy. JOIN ME by not having sex until we get bodily autonomy back. I’m calling for a #SexStrike. Pass it on.”