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The Happiest Wives - New York Times:
"From the 1960's through the 80's, wives cut back on housework as husbands did more. In the 1990's, though, the equalizing trend leveled off, leaving wives still doing nearly twice as much of the work at home.
That seems terribly unfair unless you look at how men and women behave when they're living by themselves: the women do twice as much housework as the men do. Single men do less cooking and cleaning, because those jobs don't seem as important to them. They can live with unmade beds and frozen dinners.
Similarly, there's a gender gap in enthusiasm for some outside jobs. Men are much more willing to take a job that pays a premium in exchange for long hours away from home or the risk of being killed. The extra money doesn't seem as important to women.
In a more egalitarian world, there would be more wives mining coal and driving trucks, and more husbands cooking dinners and taking children to doctor's appointments. But that wouldn't be a fairer world, as Nock and Wilcox found.
The happiest wives in their study were the ones who said that housework was divided fairly between them and their husbands. But those same happy wives also did more of the work at home while their husbands did more work outside home. Nock doesn't claim to have divined the feminine soul, but he does have one answer to Freud's question.
'A woman wants equity,' he says. 'That's not necessarily the same as equality.'"
This guy is a marketing GENUIS, and he doesn't have an MBA - put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Live from the Steve Jobs Keynote -- "Fun new products" - Engadget
Click here to read the whole article
An excerpt:
"In the minds of at least some vocal members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, expressing such politically incorrect views is the academic equivalent of provoking Islamic extremists by depicting Prophet Mohammed in a political cartoon. Radical academics do not, of course, burn down buildings, at least not since the 1970s. Instead they introduce motions of no confidence and demand resignations of those who offend their sensibilities (while insisting on complete freedom of speech for those with whom they agree -- free speech for me but not for thee!)."
After nearly seven days of elevating the Cheney bird-hunting accident to the level of a national crisis, now comes this week's flap over managing the ports. To be sure, the matter of secure U.S. ports trumps the hunting of quail as an affaire d'état. But it was the strikingly low quality of the politicians' commentary and behavior that attracted notice.
A good piece on Larry Summers. Inmates running the asylum?
Townhall.com :: Columns :: R.I.P. Harvard President Lawrence Summers by Ben Shapiro - Feb 22, 2006
Wierd story - it's not too often you have CEOs lying about getting theological degrees. Harvard B-School or Wharton maybe, but Pacific Coast Baptist College? This guy must be one heck of a salesman.
USATODAY.com - RadioShack CEO lied on resume: "e CEO said he now believes he received a ThG diploma, which is awarded for completing a three-year degree in theology. Errors in Edmondson's resume were first reported earlier this week by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram."
An interesting op-ed from boston.com on the church burnings in Alabama.
The flames of hate in Alabama - The Boston Globe:
"Suppose that vandals last month had attacked 10 Detroit-area mosques and halal restaurants, leaving behind shattered windows, wrecked furniture, and walls defaced with graffiti. The violence would be national front-page news. On blogs and talk radio, the horrifying outbreak of anti-Muslim bigotry would be Topic No. 1. Bills would be introduced in Congress to increase the penalties for violent ''hate crimes' -- no one would hesitate to call them by that term -- and millions of Americans would rally in solidarity with Detroit's Islamic community."
A Review of Beth Moore's Believing God: "Basically she says, don’t let theology and doctrine confuse you when you can figure it out with God for yourself in a way that works for you. Unfortunately, people who use her materials can’t help but absorb some of that reasoning. Even more troubling is that they think they’re doing Bible study when they are really getting a heavy dose of mysticism, storytelling, psychology, and prosperity gospel. In the introduction to Believing God, Moore shows her true, but mistaken, agenda when she says, “I know I’m going to make it to heaven because I’ve trusted Christ as my Savior, but I want to make it to my Canaan on the way. I want to finish my race in the Promised Land, not in the wilderness. You too? Then we have to cash in our fear and complacency and spend all we have on the only ticket out: BELIEF.”"
A great article in the Washington Post - make me think of the old adage - 'self knowldege avails us nothing.' This writer has a low anthropology & I like it.
Here's an excerpt - -
"Of course, some good may come out of this story, even in this country. If nothing else, this controversy should bring an end to that naive, charming and sadly incorrect American theory of international relations that "the more we all learn about one another, the less we will fight." Gradually, the Islamic world is learning that we don't respect religion in the same manner they do. Slowly, we are learning that they feel differently about the printed word, and the printed picture, from us. And somehow, I've got a feeling that this new knowledge will be not the beginning of understanding but the inspiration for more violence"
Click to read the whole thing - A Cartoon's Portrait of America
I'll let this one speak for itself. Note the article on the bottom about the dwarf getting swallowed by a Hippo!
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Being mocked is Christ's work, not Muhammad's - Wretched of the Earth
I thought this was a great post from Gene Veith’s Cranch Blog today.
Questions for Cartoon Rioters
It's interesting to listen to Muslims explaining why they are rioting, burning, and demanding murder in response to the Danish cartoons. "You do not understand," they say, "how these pictures of the prophet offend Muslims." Yes, you are clearly VERY offended. But then it is surely a separate question to examine your behavior when you are offended. Why, when you are offended, are you rioting, burning, and murdering? As opposed to other reactions, such as just getting angry without hurting anyone, writing polemics against idolatry, praying for Allah's judgment, or vowing to separate from an infidel society? (Emphasis mine – TB)
Also, we now know that your religion forbids making images of the prophet. Muslims may not do this. But do you expect non-Muslims to follow Islamic teachings? The Q'uran forbids the eating of pork. So are the non-Muslims who do eat pork also insulting Islam?
And if your religion demands the idolaters be punished, then I can understand why you want to kill the cartoonists and the newspaper editors who published them. But why are you attacking Danes and even other Europeans who had no connection with the cartoons? The people working in the Danish embassies in Syria and Lebanon did not draw or publish the cartoons. Nor did that priest in Turkey who was killed--he wasn't even Danish--nor did those German tourists who were kidnapped. You are not harming the guilty by harming the innocen
It's been a while since I've posted, so since things have been slow I'm picking it up again . .
Being confessional when it hurts:
I saw this today on Cranch and thought I'd post it.
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Cranach -- The blog of Gene Edward Veith
One of my daughter's teachers, in a Lutheran school, once spoke out in class against the death penalty. So at home we talked about the issue. We looked at Romans 13, which gives the lawful authorities the office of 'bearing the sword' against evildoers. We also looked at the Augsburg Confession and the Apology (XVI), which affirm capital punishment and which all Lutheran teachers are pledged to uphold.
When my daughter the next day brought these texts to school, the teacher saw what Scripture and the Confessions teach and so she CHANGED HER POSITION. Even though she personally disapproved of capital punishment, she recognized that the practice must be legitimate anyway because the Bible says that it is. She believed the Bible not because she liked what it said but even though she did not. She reasoned that if she disagrees with something the Bible and the Confessions teach, then SHE must be wrong.
How often do we see that? The usual approach when confronted with an authority that puts forward a position we don't like is to question the authority or try to interpret it away so that we can be left with our personal preferences anyway. But this teacher showed herself to be a true Bible-believing Christian and a genuinely confessional Lutheran."