This being Good Friday, on a short list of 2 days - the other being Easter Sunday - which vie for being the most important days in a year, there is a bit of reflection on what the day entails. I list a few:
In " Cost and Risk Are No Object When Someone Else Is Paying The Tab ", we are told of how the commodification of children is enabled by the taxpayer - who uses IVF and conceives children without the father-, and how the buyer then complains that she has not had support.
There is a very good discussion on the illiberalism and flawed concept of liberalism. Joseph Shaw argues that people who call themselves social conservatives will always fail in discussions with those terming themselves liberals unless they are willing to attack the premise that liberalism in itself is a good thing. It is sad that many people speaking out against the sacking of Brancon Eich at Mozilla have missed this point, he insists, and I completely agree with him on that.