Posted on August 22nd, 2008 by Steve Skojec
Anyone up for one?
Most states don’t recognize gay marriage — but now Hallmark does.
The nation’s largest greeting card company is rolling out same-sex wedding cards — featuring two tuxedos, overlapping hearts or intertwined flowers, with best wishes inside. “Two hearts. One promise,” one says.
Hallmark added the cards after California joined Massachusetts as the only U.S. [...]
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Posted on June 17th, 2008 by Steve Skojec
Posted on June 17th, 2008 by Steve Skojec
Sir Isaac Newton’s third law of motion dictates that “All forces occur in pairs, and these two forces are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction” (Or as is more commonly put, “for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.”)
While this is all well and good for physics, applying such rationale to the [...]
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Posted on May 20th, 2008 by Steve Skojec
I am a huge fan of Ricky Gervais’s original BBC version of The Office. A buddy of mine discovered it about 6 years ago, and when he came to visit, we watched the entire first season in one sitting.
Perhaps this is why I absolutely, positively, CAN NOT STAND the American version. I want it to [...]
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Posted on May 12th, 2008 by Steve Skojec
The weird picture really puts the nail in this coffin:
One of the central works in the exhibition “Design and the Elastic Mind” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (until 12 May), Victimless Leather, a small jacket made up of embryonic stem cells taken from mice, has died. The artists, Oron Catts and [...]
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Posted on May 9th, 2008 by Steve Skojec
It isn’t really surprising, but there’s a sort of re-emergence of the barbarian ways of old, a neo-paganism that is feeding on the mouldering corpse of the post-Christian West.
Today, Fox News reports that Code Pink, a women’s war protest group, announced that they are turning to occult practices to increase their effectiveness:
Code Pink is now resorting [...]
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Posted on April 30th, 2008 by Steve Skojec
“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.” - G.K. Chesterton
My aunt sent me this article about a man by the name of Peter Singer, an advocate of infanticide and euthanasia, who is a professor at Princeton:
The baby was born with Down syndrome.
The parents were in their 20s, so they hadn’t bothered [...]
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Posted on April 28th, 2008 by Steve Skojec
Girl, 17, killed in Iraq for loving a British soldier:
A 17-year-old Iraqi girl was murdered by her father in an honour killing after falling in love with a British soldier she met while working on an aid programme in Basra, it has been claimed.
Rand Abdel-Qader was stamped upon, suffocated and stabbed by her father, then [...]
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Posted on April 4th, 2008 by Steve Skojec
And yet, I highly doubt it will surprise you. I’ve got a bone to pick with the culture of narcissism, and I’ll take a swing at it any time I can. As far as commentary goes, there’s not much to say when something speaks so well for itself:
Melanie Engle was trying to just pluck [...]
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Posted on March 14th, 2008 by Steve Skojec
Ashley Alexandra Dupre is everywhere right now. In case you don’t know who she is, congrats on your self-imposed media blackout. For the rest of us, the pretty prostitute with a sob story and musical aspirations who took down the Governor of New York has been a staple in every form of media we’ve laid eyes [...]
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