[Update on Mike]

Thanks very much for the update.

Please wish Mike a speedy recovery.

Peter

[Abortion...think of it this way]

Pertinax wrote:

I don't think the Netherlands is a particularly convincing example. For the past half century, it has the reputation of an 'anything goes' country.

With all due respect, as a citizen of one of the first countries that legalized gay marriage, my patriotic feelings force me to a reaction to the assumption that “anything goes” in this country.

In an ideal world there wouldn’t be the need for abortions, but we don’t live in an ideal world.

With that in mind I much prefer strict legislation on the topic of abortion (as is the case in The Netherlands), than the practice of unqualified old women using knitting needles in shady back-rooms, to which some women who want an abortion are condemned in some countries.

I totally respect you and anyone who wants to protect life from its earliest beginning. As this conviction originates in religious belief, that conviction deserves respect.

But people who don’t share that conviction shouldn’t be forced to conform to the religious believes of others.

[Saga of the Elizabethton Tarheels]

I can't say how glad I am to see this in the Dude's Picks from the Past. Sequoyah is a great story teller and this is a great story. I first read it on another site but have read it a couple of times since and am re-reading it yet again. It is well worth reading.

I totally agree with you. I also read it and other stories of Sequoyah on another site and through a link found this site some time ago, for which I'm very grateful.

[One Voice]

My first reaction to this film was: "if it was only this simple."

Alas I never saw a bully turn overnight into a protector.

I totally agree with the intention of the film, but it has too much of a Christmas Carol flavour for my taste.

[Boys Beware!]

The voice-over in the video pronounces the word "homosexuals" as if it were a dirty word.

Scary to realize that this was made not so long ago.

[Habakkuk’s Mill]

Mihangel did it again. Another great story. Although his stories always are set in another country than my own, all his writings feel like a home-coming to me. Being Dutch I grew up with windmills all around me, which makes Habakkuks's Mill even more special to me. Thanks Mihangel.