An article about Judith Warner. That woman must be shot. “Oh, poor me. I’m labeling my children’s toys by color and worrying about piano lessons. Poor me. But free daycare will help everything for me even though I am quite well off and wouldn’t dream of using daycare.” (Thanks, Kip.)
The definitive link on the Terry Shiavo story. For all the people who have found their way to this blog by googling “Terry Shiavo,” go there. I wish I could write something good on the topic, but I’m still in the sucking-up-information phase. (Thanks, Sam.)
A speech by Bruce Katz. “An Urban Age in a Suburban Nation?” Katz speaks on the future of the American city. Our nation, from its very inception, has been ambivalent, if not hostile, to the city. From Thomas Jefferson’s “Pestilence City” in the 18th century, to the nativistic movements of the 1850s and 1890s, to Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Vanishing City” in the 1930’s, to futurist tracts more recently, the city has always been perceived as dirty and unhealthy, bureaucratic and antiquated, home to people and concepts that were not quite American.
Or as Thomas Jefferson famously wrote: “When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.”
Apt. 11d 
Thanks for the great link on the Shiavo case. I don’t know that there is a right or wrong here. I can understand hoping/worrying that there is some part of your loved one that you can’t get in touch with and not wanting to end that. On the other hand I also think that when you truly love someone you may want to end their suffering.
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That “shot” link doesn’t work.
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Re; the speech on the city; there is a book THE INTELLECTUAL VERSUS THE CITY (forgot the author’s names) that I read many years ago that argues that, unlike French or British, American intellectuals from Jefferson to Frank Lloyd Wright have had a rural bias.
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A man who wills another to die has been charged with murder in his heart by the God of all creation & I pray that she be healed to total normality of health. Presently, she can’t divorce her husband, but she has an advocate who will avenge her & that is Jesus. God’s word stands true forever…”Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” God has kept this woman alive all these years, not by might, not by power, but by his Spirit…everybody ought to know who Jesus is & what he did- one is htat he went back to the Father in heaven & sent his Holy Spirit to lead us & guide us into all truth- the Comforter is come!
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