Politics and Culture

1. Obama made a good decision about the "torture" photos. Images=emotions and the pictures would inflame passions around the world, exactly the thing liberals say that they don't want to do. Of course, what some on the left really want to do is stir anger against Bush.

2. Democrats are losing the torture debate, and it's not just because of Nancy Pelosi's lying. Remember, Democrats' opposition to torture is completely emotional. When people start asking what makes it immoral, Democrats have no good answer. Go ahead, ask one (or, if you're liberal, tell me). They'll mutter something about it being illegal (low-level moral reasoning: so's marijuana) or its ineffectiveness (lie, and you'd have to believe that the CIA is just trying to be mean). Press them, and nothing.

3. Which brings me to this article on how religious people have less of a problem with enhanced interrogation than their leftist brothers and sisters: Religious people are more morally sophisticated, less likely to let their "yuck" reflex guide their decisions.

4. Christians, by the way, should be against real torture because it goes against the spirit of Christianity, like slavery. Justly applied, however, torture isn't against the natural law and therefore not absolutely forbidden.

5. I'm officially bored (listening, at least) by the Miss California, Carrie Prejean, issue. She's a lovely young lady and will be a wonderful wife to a lucky guy (If I weren't married, I'd take her out), but if she wants to be taken seriously or wants to help the pro-traditional marriage cause, she needs to transition from victim-of-mean-liberals to a smart spokeswoman, and fast.

6. Gratuitous Carrie Prejean picture:

7. A Godless society does not produce great art for long. For a while, it'll be "anti" whatever came before, sometimes "shockingly" so, and then it'll transition to nihilist. It seems like German artist Gunther von Hagens is in the last throes of the anti stage. One really has to go where few men have gone before to shock modern Christians, modern art's main preoccupation. Hagens shtick is having sex with corpses.

8. I beginning to wonder if the Germans have some kind of special fascination with macabre sex. Remember a couple of years ago when German soldiers took time off from not killing the enemy to engage in a little skull sex (not that there's anything wrong with that)?

9. It's going to take a generation of Islam to clean up this mess.

10. Kinsey would have loved to interview those gallant Teutonic knights. An excellent book I'm reading called Ten Books that Screwed Up the World says how Kinsey would insert the business end of a toothbrush in his baby maker and then pleasure himself.

11. Like handwashing and not spending too much, Obama would like to mention that it's not a good idea to share toothbrushes.

10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help by Benjamin Wiker

12. Man, the Democrats have sure cleaned up Washington. No more scandals, no more lobbyists or waste. A true golden age.

13. Here's a British secretary of something explaining why her department of whatever won't allow Michale Savage into (formerly) Great Britain:

Here's the list of people non grata in Great Britain:

-American Baptist pastor Fred Waldron Phelps Snr and his daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper
-Hamas MP Yunis Al-Astal
-Jewish extremist Mike Guzovsky,
-former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard Stephen Donald Black
-neo-Nazi Erich Gliebe
-Artur Ryno and Pavel Skachevsky, the former leaders of a violent Russian skinhead gang which committed 20 racially motivated murders.
-Wadgy Abd El Hamied Mohamed Ghoneim, Abdullah Qadri Al Ahdal, Safwat Hijazi and Amir Siddique
-Muslim activist Abdul Ali Musa (previously Clarence Reams)
-murderer and Hezbollah terrorist Samir Al Quntar
-Kashmiri terror group leader Nasr Javed.

Let's see: murderers, supporters of actual terror that actually kills people (the KKK can be in this category), actual terrorists, un-PC talk show hosts that say mean things about Islam, and a homosexual-obsessed nut who protests funerals (as opposed to causing them).

Hmmm? Explanation:

"If people have so clearly overstepped the mark in terms of the way not just that they are talking but the sort of attitudes that they are expressing to the extent that we think that this is likely to cause or have the potential to cause violence or inter-community tension in this country, then actually I think the right thing is not to let them into the country in the first place. Not to open the stable door then try to close it later," Ms Smith said.

Liberal emotions strike again.

Michael Savage said he doesn't like the Muslim religion (Islamophobe). Wouldn't a congruous offender be Christophobe Christopher Hitchens? Is William Ayers on the list? Yet, no ban. Why? Because a) Brits aren't scared of Christians and b) Christianity is currently out of style.

Too bad. Without it, Britain can't think straight.