The Stupidity of Dignity

Worst of all from this point of view are those more uncivilized forms of eating, like licking an ice cream cone--a catlike activity that has been made acceptable in informal America but that still offends those who know eating in public is offensive. ... Eating on the street--even when undertaken, say, because one is between appointments and has no other time to eat--displays [a] lack of self-control: It beckons enslavement to the belly. ... Full Story »

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by Gary Holcomb - Oct. 1, 2008

WoW! This article is rational, dignified & easy to read and that says nothing about being meaningful, reasonable & absolutely correct. It also points out that Bush’s ‘President's Council on Bioethics’ is a stacked deck in favor of the blurring of the line of Separation between Church and State. What they’re talking about is the subversion of the Constitution. That’s a scandalously seditious thing for a president to do.

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