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No, No, Not This Kind of Creep. That Kind of Creep.

Gore Vidal has come out with a ringing defense of Roman Polanski — he says the 13-year-old recipient of Polanski’s attentions (back in the day) was a hooker. And this makes everything better . . . how exactly? Polanski hired a 13-year-old hooker? And then drugs her? Most men who hire prostitutes just pay them — they don’t have to dope them up also. Polanski must have been quite the charmer.
Douglas Wilson

“Persecutors always feel persecuted”

One of the things that Girard noticed about the Scriptures, not to mention human history, is that oppression is always respectable, and that the victim who protests that oppression is not respectable. He is told to shut up. Persecutors always feel persecuted. The oppressor feels oppressed, and is highly indignant when the victim won’t shut up. When the victim writes a psalm of lament, he is not playing the dutiful role that he was assigned. The victim is therefore the troublemaker, and must be dealt with.
Douglas Wilson

On Frogs

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Some judgment calls are no-brainers and still others are life-defining moments. And sometimes they’re both. Continue reading

Sunday, October 4, 2015 |

On Subsidies

“You may carve it into marble if you wish, because it is not going to change anytime soon. You get more of what you subsidize and less of what you penalize.” — Douglas Wilson Continue reading

Sunday, September 27, 2015 |

The Open Letter Part 6: The Arranged Marriage

“Mr. Right” found

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A naïve waif named Katie Travis beseeched Christ Church elder Ed Iverson to find “Mr. Right” for her, and he found the most eligible felon on the state of Idaho’s registered sex-offender list — serial pedophile Steven Sitler.

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Friday, September 25, 2015 |

On the False Dilemma

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He’s either a repressed homosexual trying to overcompensate for his effeminate nature or he’s an attention-starved pastor who will say anything to keep himself in the spotlight. Continue reading

Wednesday, September 23, 2015 |