From the monthly archives:

March 2010

Rhetorical Honey V Rhetorical Vinegar

March 31, 2010

We should not delude ourselves into thinking, then, that the policies of religious respect and fairness that gradually came to dominate in the colonies, shaping our Constitution, were inspired by respect for differing religious beliefs

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Self Esteem Is Self Absorption Without Self

March 31, 2010

Self-respect requires fortitude, one of the cardinal virtues; self-esteem encourages emotional incontinence that, while not actually itself a cardinal sin, is certainly a vice, and a very unattractive one. Self-respect and self-esteem

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Self Esteem Not The Same As Self Respect

March 31, 2010

So says Theodore Dalrymple, whose regular readers know was a prison physician. Excerpt: The problem with low self-esteem is not self-dislike, as is often claimed, but self-absorption. However, it does not follow from this that high

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Coaching Lessons The Difference Between Self

March 31, 2010

Self-respect is something else. Dalrymple describes it: "Where self-esteem is entirely egotistical, requiring that the world should pay court to oneself whatever oneself happens to be like or do, and demands nothing of the person who

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Tom Feilden Are We Experiencing A Crisis In

March 31, 2010

I've written before about the almost pseudo-religious respect that SCIENCE and scientists are given in some quarters of society. (Which I don't actually begrudge – better them than clergy.) But the overly worshipful tone leads one to

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Another Brit Faces Jail In Dubai

March 31, 2010

It's simple respect for the law. If you don't like it then DON'T COME – we don't need your kind here. If you're caught, don't whine and say "this is wrong". You are supposed to know the law before going to a country.

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I Quit To Preserve Self Respect Says Kabir Suman Times Of India

March 31, 2010

Rediff I quit to preserve self-respect, says Kabir Suman Times of India KOLKATA: Renegade Trinamool Congress MP Kabir Suman said on Tuesday that he intended to resign from the party and as an MP to preserve his self-respect and protest

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Competitive Games And The Curriculum

March 31, 2010

It is generally in the 6th, 7th, and 8th grades that the more conventional sports are brought into the curriculum because only then can the children have a real respect for the law of rules and understand how a team works together while

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