BreakPoint Blog

Porn degrades everyone

Fri, 25 May 2012 15:20:25 EDT

Hustler magazine recently printed a vile Photoshopped picture of conservative writer S. E. Cupp, provoking widespread outrage. Randy Thomas asks why we don't express such outrage about all the women (and men) degraded by magazines like Hustler.It should be mentioned that at least some (though not all) of those involved in the porn industry are willing participants, whereas Cupp was not. That said, however, Thomas has a point worth considering.

My sense of entitlement

Fri, 25 May 2012 13:29:41 EDT

Maybe you're thinking that I'm going to rant about President Obama and his tactics to give aid to those who feel they deserve it as Americans. Surprise! I'm refraining from this argument. Instead, I'm going to tackle something that hits more closely to home: entitlement to a parent's approval.

Silence and Creation

Fri, 25 May 2012 11:51:19 EDT

I recently took up geocaching. It's a hobby where people hide caches and post the coordinates on a website, and you try to find them. Caches can be hidden anywhere: in forests, along bike trails, mountains, state parks and even in the ocean.

Faithfulness Not Success

Thu, 24 May 2012 14:05:53 EDT

You can tell a lot about a person by what he or she has on his or her desk. I learned this pretty quickly at my new 9 to 5 job at the Colson Center.A person with a lot of child-produced art projects, for example, probably values family; someone with an undecorated workspace perhaps works mostly from home, while one with an adorned area probably spends a considerable amount of time at the office. And, if a person has sticky notes all around her desk, that girl may have poor memory . . . or maybe is just a little overwhelmed at her new job :). Whatever the case may be, I firmly believe that a desk tells a lot about a person.

Your Move, Obama

Thu, 24 May 2012 11:30:56 EDT

Bad Catholic has a highly amusing take on Franciscan University's decision to drop all health insurance coverage rather than comply with the HHS contraception mandate (from a Franciscan student). Go to the link for a laugh, and several excellent points applicable to all Christians. More today at ThePointRadio.org.

Hail and farewell, House

Wed, 23 May 2012 17:37:40 EDT

Dave the Swede asked me the other day if I was planning to watch the House series finale. As it happened, the answer was yes -- but it very easily could have been no. For I haven't watched House in a couple of years now. For me, the show jumped the shark when House remarked that being happy in a relationship made him lose interest in being a good doctor. Being a good doctor -- if only for the sake of solving the puzzle -- was the character's reason for being; without it, he was nothing. Temporary as that mood may have been -- and temporary as the relationship in question turned out to be -- I could never look at the show the same way again after that.But Monday night, I went back just for old times' sake. And just to find out something . . .