They're not Quacks, they're Leading Scientists

Touchstone links to a blogger's encounter with James Watson, co-discoverer of the Double Helix and advocate of eugenic abortions.

Holy Ground

William Luse excerpts a novel he likes. I might like it too. More material for the Denver Catholic Book Club?

The Stephanos Project

An Orthodox site containing a few citations of the Church Fathers against contraception.

Alexander the Great, an Orthodox blogger, links to another Orthodox Christian upholding Christian orthodoxy.

Vonnegut Goofs

I have to say that's a pretty good sound bite, almost as good as, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." A lot of people think Jesus said that, because it is so much the sort of thing Jesus liked to say. But it was actually said by Confucius, a Chinese philosopher, 500 years before there was that greatest and most humane of human beings, named Jesus Christ.(source)

Now thanks to Mr. Vonnegut we have yet another error half-educated people will repeat as Gospel truth. Confucius, in his Analects, actually formulates the negative version of the Golden Rule, "Do not do to others what you would not like yourself." Jesus, of course, says "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" in Matthew 7:12. The negative version of the rule promotes a live and let die attitude, while the positive version enjoins feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, and more meddlesome deeds like idol-smashing.

From the American Conservative

For Shame, on the abuse of prisoners of war.

An Interview with Ralph Nader

The Commonplace Book of Zadok the Roman

New Blog

The Ballad of the White Horse

A review of GKC's epic.