Show Notes:
The Catholic Role in the American Founding by Phil Lawler; for a fuller picture of the argument, see also an earlier piece on a closely related topic: Has the American Experiment Failed?
Representatives Luna and Petterson on Proxy Voting in the House. They are as embarrassing to womanhood as they are ignorant of how things are done in Congress.
“Reps. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) and Brittany Pettersen (D-CO), both new mothers, spoke against a House rules package provision to block Rep. Luna's discharge petition to bring to the floor a bill she co-sponsored with Rep. Pettersen that would allow new parents in Congress to vote by proxy.”
Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times by H. W. Brands (affiliate link)
My Favorite Wife with Cary Grant — There’s something else troublesome about this movie Leila forgot to mention — maybe next week!
The Parent Trap with Maureen O’Hara and Hayley Mills
The Parent Trap (remake) with Lindsey Lohan and Denis Quaid
For next week, you might want to read these long pieces in the New York Times about IVF (they are unlocked as of this posting):
This baby was carefully selected as an embryo —
“Sex is for fun, and embryo screening is for babies,” she said in a video she shared on X.
“The testing was meant to look at intellectual disability, not intellectual ability,” Nathan Treff, Genomic Prediction’s chief scientific officer and one of its founders, told me, disputing the idea that parents were looking for supersmart embryos. Intellectual disability, he stressed, is “a medical condition,” and he did not rule out one day offering screening for it again.
— and This vial is made to hold human embryos
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