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Monday, September 15, 2008 Two Bits of Good News... By Diana Hsieh @ 3:23 PM ... from the Coalition for Secular Government: Last Wednesday, Ari Armstrong and I attended a fundraising dinner for the Colorado chapter of Republican Majority for Choice. Ari and I were generously invited to the event because of our issue paper, "Amendment 48 Is Anti-Life: Why It Matters That a Fertilized Egg Is Not a Person." I was very impressed with the 200-strong turnout, as well as the commitment to individual rights so clearly expressed by master of ceremonies Hank Brown. The event was a bright spot in our fight against Colorado's Amendment 48, which would grant full legal rights to fertilized eggs in Colorado's constitution. I do hope to see more pro-choice Republicans speaking up for reproductive rights within their party. Ari Armstrong's op-ed -- "With Palin, McCain ignores Colorado warning" -- was published by the Boulder Weekly. That op-ed was distributed by the Coalition for Secular Government. Independent of CSG, Ari also published an excellent op-ed in the Rocky Mountain News entitled Lessons for U.S. politicians from the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry this weekend. (Ari is the author of a fantastic short book Values of Harry Potter.) Labels: Coalition for Secular Government, Election, Fiction, Politics   E-mail Diana Hsieh    PermaLink ()    Comments [3] (New Page)     Friday, August 08, 2008 Values of Harry Potter By Diana Hsieh @ 12:38 AM I'm delighted to announce that Ari Armstrong's book Values of Harry Potter is now available for purchase. I read an advance copy of the book last month. I loved it. Here's my official endorsement of it. I've read all the Harry Potter novels multiple times, discussed them at length with friends, read essays analyzing them, and even published an essay of my own. Yet Ari Armstrong's Values of Harry Potter offered me a delightful array of fresh insights into J. K. Rowling's works. It offers fans of Harry Potter a unique opportunity to explore the core values of the novels, to discover why we find them so captivating and so inspiring. Readers will develop a deeper appreciation for Rowling's achievement in portraying life-loving, courageous heroes. They will discover compelling answers to any half-formed questions and doubts about the significance of her Christian themes. When I re-read the Harry Potter series -- as I'm eager to do again -- I will gain far more insight and inspiration from them than ever before, thanks to Values of Harry Potter. For a bit of a taste of the actual item, Ari has posted a PDF with extracts of the book on his web site. I recommend the book to all fans of Harry Potter, but particularly to people interested in Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism. You'll find much of interest in it -- much that you didn't notice on a first or second or third reading of the books. So go order your copy now! Labels: Fiction, Recommendations   E-mail Diana Hsieh    PermaLink ()    Comments [0] (New Page)     Thursday, June 12, 2008 Mobile Me By Diana Hsieh @ 6:18 PM As I was reading this TUAW post on the awful (and very un-Apple-like) logo for Mobile Me, the .Mac replacement scheduled to launch in a few weeks, I finally realized why I can't say "Mobile Me" without some strange feeling of cringing mockery. For weeks now, I've known that it reminded me of something vaguely unsavory, but I just couldn't say what. Then I realized: The phrase "Mobile Me" is just too damn close to "Magical Me," the title of Gilderoy Lockhart's autobiography from Harry Potter. Sheesh, didn't anyone at Apple read Harry Potter? Labels: Computers, Fiction   E-mail Diana Hsieh    PermaLink ()    Comments [7] (New Page)

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