Mark Steyn: By the way, if you’re looking for some last-minute stocking stuffers, Oxford University Press has published a book by professor David Benatar of the University of Cape Town called “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence.” The author “argues for the ‘anti-natal’ view – that it is always wrong to have children … . Anti-natalism also implies that it would be better if humanity

Sadly, No! channels Ace, two days after the fact.

Now, even though I’m Catholic, I think this guy’s a bit of a dick.  Still, if dickishness is outlawed, only outlaws will have dicks.   ”A lifetime ban on public criticism of homosexuality was upheld against a Catholic activist in Canada by his province’s superior court.” “Bill Whatcott was fined 17,500 Canadian dollars by the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission in a complaint by four homosexuals who charged he “injured” their “feelings” and “self respect”

Who exactly is Mansoor Ijaz – the guy who asked Mitt Romney the ill-fated question about whether or not he would put a Muslim in his cabinet?  Or maybe it would make a great sequel . . .

Splodeydopes:  The family of a suicide bomber who killed 17 U.N. staff in Algiers this week said he joined Islamist rebels after failing to get a taxi license and was motivated by “ignorance, not poverty”, a newspaper reported. “We got nothing from al Qaeda, we are still very poor,” Bechla Rabah’s oldest son Younes told Echorouk. “Ignorance, not poverty, this is what pushed my father to blow himself up.” Al

A winter storm poised to strike Pittburgh, where Liz Stephans lives, has been diverted to the north due to the prayers of Protein Wisdom readers. Snow fell from the Plains across the Midwest on Saturday, accumulating as much as a foot in places, as the second wintry storm in a week barreled through on its way to New England.Tens of thousands of people still had no electricity since the first

Another person who once crossed Nancy Kerrigan has died a mysterious death. Brian Sean Griffith, a former bodyguard to figure skater Tonya Harding who admitted a role in the attack on her rival Nancy Kerrigan during Olympics tryouts, has died. He was 40. Griffith died Wednesday of what his doctor reported as “natural causes,” according to the Washington County medical examiner’s office. The specific cause of death is expected to

the protoplasm envelope that houses the obnoxious being tagged “Chuck Adkins,” tempting as that is, out of pity and the knowledge that Christiana would not have wanted him to. All of which is beside the most important point, which in the end is this: the huge, spontaneous tsunami of love, sympathy, and support that followed in the wake of the unjustified and unjustifiable outrage that precipitated it is probably the

Protein Wisdom items make great codpiece stuffers!

Dutch diplomat and wife adopt Korean girl, decide it’s not right for their lifestyle, return it in good condition, and suddenly find themselves in a shitstorm.  What’s the big?  Geez, it’s not like Ellen fobbing off that dog. They’re unbelievably selfish, pinheaded jackasses, obviously, but I’m glad they gave the girl up, as Korean girls make notoriously difficult housepets.