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There were a couple articles in the Globe this past weekend on the new health care bill that was crafted by the Massachusetts legislature. This article talks about different items that might be in the bill. It’s hard not to notice that the item mentioned in the headline–an assessment of employers who don’t [...]

I came across this BBC article this week (through boingboing) about a plan made by the British government to seize abandoned homes, renovate them, and then lease them out.
This reminded me of something called “dog-in-the-manger” squatting that I found out on a site about distributism (an idea that intrigues me greatly, even if I don’t [...]

This past Tuesday there was a rally and press conference at the State House in Boston held by MassAct. It was announced that 75,000 signatures had been collected for the ballot initiative (30,000 collected by GBIO) and pressure was put on the Massachusetts congress to pass reform themselves. I wasn’t there myself, alas. [...]

I didn’t realize during my recent rereading of TLTWATW the significance of the children being aided by beavers. Thanks to an article on the BBC this morning, I now know that beavers were hunted to extinction in England 500 years ago and are only now being reintroduced to the country. Lewis would certainly [...]

If finished TLTWATW a couple days ago and I’m already well into Prince Caspian. I have some general thoughts on the book, but first responding to Pullman’s accusations.

Misogyny: I can certainly see where this charge comes from. The villian of the novel is a powerful woman, identified as a descendent of Lilith–a [...]

I’ve been listening to my recently acquired “Come on Feel the Illinoise” by Sufjan Stevens* on the bus on the way to school this week. Sufjan’s work is impeccably and dizzyingly arranged and so I was allowing myself the repetitive play in order to really absorb the album. On the third run through, [...]

I came across a Time magazine article called “The Road Ahead” through a link on boingboing. Billed as a conversation between Tim O’Reilly, Malcolm Gladwell, Clay Shirky, Mark Dery, Esther Dyson, David Brooks, and Moby, I really couldn’t resist (note: I did not previously know who Clay Shirky and Mark Dery are.) It’s [...]

While cruising Planet Emergent this morning, I came across this blog entry that led me to an article in Christianity Today by Gary Haugen of the International Justice Mission. IJM is a Christian organization that works on international human rights cases. I applied for a job as IT manager there a few years [...]

It’s not really surprising to anyone who has read what Philip Pullman has said about C. S. Lewis and Narnia over the years that he’s complaining about the upcoming film adaptation of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. The BBC recently ran an article that quotes Pullman as saying the books are misogynist, [...]

The Globe has finally run an article on the health care initiative, if only because it has come to the attention of the state legislature. This is good, because it’s what we had hoped would happen when we started the signature drive. One of the main goals of the signature campaign was to [...]