There is an interesting post and subsequent discussion about Liberalism and abortion going on at Imago Dei.
The argument builds off this premise: "One of the goals of classic liberalism is to protect the weak from the powerful." From where I stand, the reason liberals are usually not pro life is that they want to pick and choose who is weak and who is powerful. In other words, their naturalism and their radical autonomy do them in. Those elements don't lead one to embrace freedom, they lead to isolation and to tyranny. But then, I've said that before.
My move to Mac has been very happy except for two issues - gaming and blogging. For websurfing and multimedia, a Mac is of course a terrific machine. Games on the Mac platform are often ports of games made for the larger PC market and that means a Mac gamer will have to wait for the port. I'm not a heavy gamer by any means but I am very happy that the Mac port of Civilization 4 is finally here. Well, my copy isn't here quite yet - but it has been ordered and ought to be here soon. The blogging issue is more complicated. I'm not fond of writing my posts in a browser window. This goes back to when I was first blogging and I lost one or two large posts into the ether. After that I moved to w.bloggar - a great little app that let me compose on my desktop and then click send when all was said and done. I have not been able to recreate that experience on my Mac, and not for a lack of trying! I looked at Marsedit , but that forces you to compse while staring at a bunch of HMT...
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