For the life of me, I can't get out of my head Toure's on-air editorial thanking God for the fact that he was able to abort his own child. Whenever I see the man now or hear his name, it all comes back -- how he manipulated our language in such a wicked way to make it sound as though a completely unnecessary abortion was noble, selfless, patriotic, and, yes, holy.

Here's a man who for purely selfish, self-involved reasons, callously and coldly chose to take an innocent life. But years later, upon reflection, does he regret or even hesitate over what he did; does he wonder why he didn’t solve his problem of not being ready to be a father by bringing the child to term and then putting it up for adoption?

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In response to When losing meant something:

Gosh, you're so old-fashioned!  Working hard to win trophies?  Now kids get trophies just for showing up.  You can even "win" a Nobel Peace Prize just for existing, and they don't take it back when they find out about your secret drone-strike kill lists.

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In response to Collective narcissim:

Hi John,

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In response to Are we breeding a generation of deluded narcissists?:

David, it's interesting you should mention narcissism as a prominent factor in the mindset of the current generation.  It would seem to conflict with the entitlement and victim mentalities you also mentioned, but they're all blended together into a spirit of collective narcissism, leavened with doses of paranoia and despair.  I think it goes something like this:

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The answer is yes.

Now add selfishness, entitlement mentality, victim mentality, me--me--me and you get a new level of unearned hubris.

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In response to Rich Masochists Against the 8th Amendment:

One of the basic principles behind "unalienable rights" is that you don't have to justify their exercise.  You're never supposed to be on the defensive, explaining to those who choose not to exercise said rights why you should be allowed to keep them.  That's supposed to nip the kind of "social pressure" campaign liberals have been mounting against guns in the bud - a campaign in which, as I recall, someone proposed stigmatizing gun owners as though they were drug dealers. 

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In response to The Gun Discussion Seems to Involve a Battle Over a Cultural Preference...:

In talking with friends who are for gun control, alot of their statements seem to stem from personal preference.  One friend said she has no threat of a home invasion, so why should anyone else?  Another said there's no longer a reason to hunt because meat is readily available in stores.  And in the case pf protection, obviously, there's easy accessibility to whistles.  This line of thinking reminds me of laws about smoking in public places (and vice laws).  If I were dictator, I would ban smoking anywhere.  It gives me a headache, stinks and makes everyone around them stink.  Unfortunately, my intolerance for cigarette smoke is not a good basis for making laws.  Those who don't use guns or understand the 2nd Amendment are all too happy to dismiss these rights because they don't exercise them.  Laws (and rights) should not be made on personal preference, yet that is exactly what anti-2nd Amendment proponents are doing. 

On one hand, one cultural cohort prefers more citizens being armed, as a deterrent to the comparatively-small number of armed criminals and psychopaths.

On the other hand, one cultural cohort would prefer to deal with gun violence by simply forbidding citizens from having guns.  For example, this genius -- another Colorado lawmaker, not the one we just heard about -- recommends that women who fear rape employ "the Buddy System" and/or "Judo."

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I loved The Cosby Show growing up.   They were the perfect family, growing up in a perfect house with an uncanny ability to perfectly solve any problem.

Everyone wanted to be a Huxtable.

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Setting aside Cephas Hour [the author's mostly-Christian-music podcast -- ed.] so as to take this from the personal into the general, there are conservatives doing their best to address the public through different channels — music, film, etc. These efforts ought to be rewarded, or at the least supported. Yet, what is taking place is that when one or more of these artists does work that is overtly political and conservative, the praise flows like a river. Should they step out of that into doing something of an outreach nature, the crickets come to call. Without a Buddy Holly in sight.

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Stretch out. Reach out. Embrace the more challenging way. Divest yourself of the comfort zone, or to put it in a more crude yet not inaccurate way the circle jerk. Actively support conservative arts not just when they’re toeing the line, but when they blur the division line between themselves, their beliefs, and the people outside your conversation zone.

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