A little sliver of pork for a highway that doesn’t exist anymore. The Illinois Bureau of Tourism will dispense $2,257.80 to the Route 66 Association of Illinois to help reprint 75,000 brochures promoting “the Route 66 Hall of Fame Museum and recreational travel along the historic route.”
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Is the law male? Don’t ask foolish questions. “The absence of hypotheticals involving strong, competent women is another problem students at five of the six law schools [U. of C., DePaul, Kent, John Marshall, and Northwestern] raise,” according to a recent Chicago Bar Association report. “At Loyola, many professors do use women as judges and lawyers in their hypotheticals in class. At the other five area schools, however, according to the women interviewed, with only isolated exceptions professors rarely use women in examples or discuss women’s experiences, unless they are discussing rape victims. At the same five law schools, students report that professors typically use male generic pronouns as a matter of course. When one student asked about this practice, one professor explained that ‘she’ as a generic pronoun ‘sounds so weird and unnatural.’”
“The real mysteries of the [Catholic] faith are easier to believe than the supposedly rational condemnation of contraceptives based on ‘natural law,’” writes Garry Wills in the New York Review of Books, reprinted in Martin Marty’s Context (February 15). “According to the Pope, the sex act must always be ordinated toward procreation, and never to pleasure alone. By that logic, eating and drinking must always be ordinated toward self-preservation, never to pleasure. The toast of fellowship among well-fed people is ruled out, all the symbolic and extraordinary uses of feasting and drink that find their highest expression in the agape feast and the Eucharist. The body does not physically need the eucharistic bread or cup, so they are unnatural.”
And the libertarian shall lie down with the environmentalist, neither shall they make war anymore–huh? “The core philosophy of [turn-of-the-century] progressivism was the scientific management of society,” writes Dr. Robert Nelson in FREE Perspectives (Winter). “If science was transforming the physical conditions of human existence in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many people believed it could similarly transform the social conditions…. The common ground between libertarians and environmentalists begins with a hostility to and a rejection of the basic tenets of progressivism. Leading spokesmen for both environmental and libertarian thought propose a sharp decentralization in the organizational arrangements for American society.”
