Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Bucking the nanny state
An article showing the few (albeit American) who dare buck the Swedish nanny state.
No one sees the downside more clearly than Therese Murphy and her husband, Paul.
They are bringing up their four children in the picturesque Swedish city of Gothenberg.
The couple are due to have another baby before Christmas, a welcome addition for 39-year-old Therese to care for at their five-bedroom house near the waterfront.
The couple should have a perfect family life, but when the Murphys go out their neighbours look at them with curiosity.
If Therese takes her two youngest, Elise, nine, and William, five, to play in the park, it is nearly always empty.
For she and Paul, a medical salesman who was born in the U.S., are bucking the system.
Therese is a stay-at-home mother - one of a tiny number of women in Sweden who do not have a paid job.
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Mark on the little child(ren)
The anti-natalists are back in force this year, and Steyn doesn’t like it.
The birth of a child. On the one hand, what could be more powerless than a newborn babe? On the other, without a newborn babe, man is ultimately powerless. For, without new life, there can be no civilization, no society, no nothing. Even if it’s superstitious mumbo-jumbo, the decision to root Christ’s divinity in the miracle of His birth expresses a profound - and rational - truth about “eternal life” here on Earth.
Friday, December 14, 2007
Mega anti-car
Old, white, single, has probably rented all his life somewhere near Church and College - all me just guessing at the stereotype of Toronto’s #1 car hater.
Whatever the appeal of the car may be, mobility has little to do with it.
The odd thing is that most that take the TTC would never call it the better way.
Yes, I read this guy just to irritate myself.
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Santa-scared
Some scary pictures of the jolly old soul.
Seagull mauling
I don’t like seagulls, but this attack on one of them here is tough to look at. (check photos on right of page)
Saturday, December 1, 2007
lgf: Teddy Bear Teacher Moved to Secret Location
The latest reminder of the difference between (radical?) Islam and the fringe? elements of other religions. Clearly the differences are exponential.
The Daily Mail has more on the appalling demonstrations from Religion of Peace&#xu2;122 members in Sudan, who poured out of mosques after Friday prayers screaming for the death of teddy bear teacher Gillian Gibbons and brandishing swords and knives: Teddy bear teacher moved to secret location as thousands of Islamic fanatics demand her execution.
A reminder why we’re fighting the wars of today.