points to ponder from Dispatches

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Dispatches from the Culture Wars: Bishop Williamson: Cake or Death?:

Given the Church's long history of forcing people to recant their heresies, there is at least a bit of irony in the fact that they are now doing it to their own clergy. Put him on the rack, I say! Make him regret that he is not an Anglican, where he would be faced with the harrowing choice of cake or death.

Dispatches from the Culture Wars: Is More Debt Really the Solution?:

I am baffled by how many mortgages have been allowed to go into foreclosure rather than being renegotiated at a lower rate and perhaps a longer term. Why would a lender not prefer a healthy mortgage getting repaid at, say, 4% a year rather than one that would default at 8 or 9% a year? Why would a lender need to be forced to do this?

Comments

[pharmtoxgirl.livejournal.com]

I know what you are saying. I was thinking about this as I was driving into work today.

I guess my problem with with some of my friends, whom I love but have ALWAYS lived beyond their means. They are filing for bankruptcy and foreclosing. It sucks, BUT I also feel that they put themselves into the position - well because they did.

But if there is help for foreclosed homes, I just feel that they'll be first in line and learn NOTHING while others more deserving are going otbe left out in the cold.

I'm not cynical much.