Author: Sal

As if you needed more proof to be convinced that popular culture is devoid of any substance, here’s a contest looking for the best “guitar face.” Not a face shaped like a guitar, but rather the face of one playing the guitar. Ability doesn’t matter at all, just your face while you are playing it. I guess, Eric, you could play air guitar and win.

Is there a picture of this guy on the net someplace? Bet he’s a Star Trek fan. Or he had his name legally change to “Hamburglar.” He could be edgy and hyphenate it: Ham Burg-lar. Sounds Klingon – a warrior’s name!

Column by Maggie Gallagher. A snippet:

Democrats complain the marriage issue is divisive. By that they mean it divides the majority of Democratic voters from some key special interests of their party, who provide money and manpower. If Democrats would do what the majority of their constituents tell pollsters they want — protect the normal definition of marriage as the union of husband and wife — marriage would not be a divisive issue; it would unite the great majority of Americans from both parties, and all races and ethnic groups. (The majority of African-Americans are particularly upset at the framing of same-sex marriage as a civil rights issue.)
Same-sex marriage activists know that their path to victory lies in confusing the issue, keeping the discussion on anything but marriage itself — the sacred constitution, discrimination, hate, federalism — to silence the public and let courts do their political work for them. So Democrats in Congress are pinned between the money and the votes.

One paragraph from Means to Message: A Treatise on Truth by Father Stanley Jaki.

No logical escape hatch is offered from man’s ethical predicament by specious rhetoric. It is hardly logical to deprive all but one, the Seventh, of the Ten Commandments from a strictly ethical content. The illogicality rests with the cohesion among those Commandments. Thus for, instance, it is hardly possible to sin against the Seventh. which forbids thefts, without shortchanging truth, which is forbidden by the Eighth. Also, thefts begin with coveting, which is forbidden by the Ninth and Tenth. Since the Ninth forbids the coveting of one’s neighbor’s wife (or secretary or babysitter) the step to the Sixth should seem a very short one indeed. Yet the Sixth is no longer taken for even a mere counsel, although the brazen flouting of it now threatens the biological survival of modern affluent society. The latter now emancipates children from parental authority, the gist of the Fourth, which bases the duty of obedience on existential dependence. Clearly, then, it is atavistic in this society to refer to the thrust of the first three Commandments, which refer to a reality infinitely above any societal factor.