National Socialism redux

Very interesting - Abortion Icons change their perspective

Well this is cool.  Roe v. Wade is the iconic abortion case where the US Supreme Court held that abortion pre-viability was a right.  There was another case released the same day, Doe v. Bolton, that said abortion anytime during the term was legal.

So, the 40th anniversary of those cases is coming up.

 In the midst of this flurry of media coverage a woman named Sandro Cano has quietly issued a media release on a Christian newswire service calling for the two Supreme Court cases to be overturned. This in itself might seem unremarkable, until you learn Cano’s other name: Mary Doe.

Yes, that Mary Doe.

Good for her.

Meanwhile, another women, Norma McCorvey, briefly captured headlines during last year’s election cycle when she released a pro-life ad featuring graphic pictures of aborted children and accusing President Obama of “killing babies” by his support for abortion.
Most won’t recognize McCorvey’s real name, but will instantly recognize her pseudonym: Jane Roe. Yes, that Jane Roe.

 Read the whole thing here.

Bad taste is the new measure of discernment

Here's a thought on the appeal of asceticism and bizarre aesthetics as a "keeping up with the Joneses" kind of excercise:

Capitalism made luxury hard work by making everything cheap. Suddenly it wasn't enough to just lie in bed and order the butler to bring you exotic pomegranates from the Orient and champagne from the vineyards of France. Those things could be found in any supermarket courtesy of the jet plane. Status stopped being a lazy man or woman's game and became a frenzied rat race. Fat was out and hyperactive workouts were in. Anyone could afford good art, so those with discerning taste chose bad art. Anyone could vacation abroad, so they bought old farm houses, restored them and painted bad art while trying to grow their own food.

 Things that make you go Hmmm.  Whole thing is here.

A nation of adolescents

I have been thinking of the prevailing zeitgeist as the rise of the un-serious, but I think Laura Hollis got it more right:

America has become a nation of adolescents The real loser in this election was adulthood: Maturity. Responsibility. The understanding that liberty must be accompanied by self-restraint. Obama is a spoiled child, and the behavior and language of his followers and their advertisements throughout the campaign makes it clear how many of them are, as well. Romney is a grown-up. Romney should have won. Those of us who expected him to win assumed that voters would act like grownups. Because if we were a nation of grownups, he would have won.

Yep.  I have no idea what to do about it, except gird your loins, but there is another look at the same phenomenon.

Read it all here.