Welmer

In a sort of continuation of my last post, I’d like to highlight the controversy in the Episcopalian Church. The Epsicopalians, under radical feminist bishop Katherine Jefferts-Schori, have decided to bless gay marriages. Now, lest I come off as anti-gay, I should explain that I have no problem with people who were born gay forming [...]

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As women are becoming increasingly dominant in academia and the philosophically oriented professions, more and more are beginning to take on authority in matters of spirituality. It is not only in the more liberal Protestant churches and Jewish temples in America that we see this, but in the Catholic Church as well. There are even [...]

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America is said to be obsessed with beauty and body image, and it has long been argued that the standards of beauty in the US are unnatural and unrealistic. They are allegedly oppressive to women, as well as based on a particular racial standard that many women do not fit into. This, like much of [...]

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While reading Roissy’s blog comments, Bhetti Ameen, a young Arab medical student in the UK (read her blog), asked a question that made me stop and think. After reading about the case of Frank Hatley, a South Georgia man who was ordered to pay years of child support for a child that was not his, [...]

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Novaseeker has recently been trying to figure out where young men stand in the current mating game, and although I hadn’t given it much thought, preoccupied as I am with other issues, I came across another little gem from Jezebel, where I can count on finding some honest discussions of what young women are looking [...]

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Health care is a noble profession, or at least it used to be before people started fiddling with the Hippocratic oath, but it isn’t a productive endeavor, nor is it something we should necessarily want to be a growth industry. In a better society we would need fewer rather than more doctors and health care [...]

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I am a fourth generation Seattlite, and as deep as my attachment runs to my birthplace, I find myself suspicious of it, as though there were whiff of decay beneath its attractive exterior. This biblical verse comes to mind: “ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of [...]

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It strikes me that a very large part of the new feminist paradigm in the US involves forcing men, by one means or another, to shut up and behave “properly.” What proper means depends, of course, on what particular people want at any given time, so it is, in effect, asking men to keep hitting [...]

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When Ultimate Fighting first came out in the 90s bringing Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) to prominence, I must admit that I was pretty impressed by the new sport. Perhaps, being at my hormonal peak around the age of 20, the element of primal struggle had a certain appeal. However, I have come to see its [...]

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North Korea has been beating the war drums with gusto lately, but a few photos of Kim the younger have exposed what appears to be a frail, dying man. According to South Korean reports and intelligence from China, he has pancreatic cancer, which is a very deadly disease, and he is not expected to live [...]

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