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Monday, February 14, 2005

EVERYONE WANTS TO FIND SOMETHING TO BE SNOBBY ABOUT!

So now those who love CHOCOLATE have caught the bug from the wine folk…......

Tim Richardson reviews Mort Rosenblum’s book on the dark, sweet stuff.
Read the entire review of “Chocolate”

Posted by Earl on 02/14 at 12:04 PM
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Sunday, February 13, 2005

Relevant Magazine’s review of Million Dollar Baby

Reviewer Kevin Miller is “thankful that Eastwood used this film to give the question of assisted suicide the moral gravity and attention it deserves.”

I think some of the responders have a better grasp of Christian reality than the reviewer. No, I haven’t seen the film, but if the Bible tells us anything, it’s that some things are always wrong – taking an innocent life is surely one of them. I’m sure that at times, I won’t like that message, either…..but principles don’t exist for the times where we all know the right and want to do it!

Read the whole review here

Posted by Laura on 02/13 at 02:03 PM
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THIS is why the Terri Schiavo story is so important…

Sarah Scantlin and her mother Betsey Scantlin

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) - For 20 years, Sarah Scantlin has been mostly oblivious to the world around her - the victim of a drunken driver who struck her down as she walked to her car. Today, after a remarkable recovery, she can talk again.

Read the entire article here.

Who is Terri Schiavo and why is she important?

Posted by Laura on 02/13 at 01:57 PM
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Ethics & Life’s Ending: An Exchange

Ethics & Life’s Ending: An Exchange by Robert D. Orr & Gilbert Meilander. Published in the August/September issue of First Things.

Robert Orr, MD, Director of Ethics for Fletcher Allen Health Care and Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, states that:

The moral debate about the use or non-use of feeding tubes hinges on three important considerations: the distinction between what in the past was called “ordinary” and “extraordinary” treatments; the important social symbolism of feeding; and a distinction between withholding and withdrawing treatments.

Gilbert Meilaender, a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics, disagrees:

“Choosing life” does not mean doing whatever is needed to stay alive as long as possible. But choosing life clearly means never aiming at another’s death—even if only by withholding treatment. I am not persuaded that Dr. Orr has fully grasped or delineated what it means to choose life in the difficult circumstances he discusses.

Read the whole discussion here.

Posted by Laura on 02/13 at 01:35 PM
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Capital Punishment: The Case for Justice

J. Budziszewski’s article in First Things is finally online. Good stuff.

So weighty is the duty of justice that it raises the question whether mercy is permissible at all. By definition, mercy is punishing the criminal less than he deserves, and it does not seem clear at first why not going far enough is any better than going too far. We say that both cowardice and rashness miss the mark of courage, and that both stinginess and prodigality miss the mark of generosity; why do we not say that both mercy and harshness miss the mark of justice? Making matters yet more difficult, the argument to abolish capital punishment is an argument to categorically extend clemency to all those whose crimes are of the sort that would be requitable by death.

Read the whole article here.

Posted by Laura on 02/13 at 01:24 PM
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Tuesday, February 08, 2005

Hurrah!

Posted by Laura on 02/08 at 07:57 PM
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