This is good. It is a human obligation—and a proper role of government—to ensure that our food animals are slaughtered humanely. There are rules and regulations in this regard and USDA inspectors at slaughter houses to maintain proper standards.Apparently, the Hallmark/Westland Meat . . . . Continue Reading »
A reader/interlocutor has chided me for being too hasty in condemning Archbishop Rowan’s shariah remarks, noting that one, and only one, system of civil law gets you exactly what is happening in Colorado—an attempt to curtail the Catholic Church’s freedom to hire whom it will. And . . . . Continue Reading »
The shamans of scientisim are growing increasingly strident. Yesterday, we discussed advocacy for creating a world authoritarianism to impose scientific consensus policies about global warming. Apparently, Dr. David Suzuki, the Canadian geneticist turned television star, has opined that politicians . . . . Continue Reading »
The Farrelly brothers are known for their profitable, occasionally droll, gross-out comedies, notably Kingpin , Dumb & Dumber , and There’s Something About Mary . In 1999, they wrote and directed the disastrously earnest, and bad, film Outside Providence , based largely on their personal . . . . Continue Reading »
There’s an interesting article in today’s New York Times on the head sacristan of Notre Dame de Paris, who is also the cathedral’s head bell-ringer. A small sample: Notre-Dame has 11 bells. The four in the north tower were cast in 1856 to replace older ones that were melted down . . . . Continue Reading »
Mollie Hemingway follows on up on the fallout from Rowan Williams’ declaration that “some form” of Shariah law is “inevitable” in Britain. Favorite headline: ” Has the Archbishop Gone Bonkers?” Gledhill comments on how “uncharacteristically . . . . Continue Reading »
I have warned repeatedly that we suffer from “expertitis,” my term for the tendency to hand the most important policy decisions over to “experts.” Now, a well known environmental author named David Shearman has written an hysterical piece urging that we toss aside democracy . . . . Continue Reading »
Uh, no, Nathaniel, I don’t think that’s it at all . Our disagreement was about your overly-simplistic approach to this question, an approach you continue to take in your most recent post. You said the answers to these questions were “obvious;” I said they weren’t . I . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . as well as four other Olivier Award thingees . Who knew it would make for anything but a ludicrous musical ? They must put on one heck of a pyrotechnical miracle over at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Go figure . . . Although, almost as staggering, Hairspray has broken an Olivier Award . . . . Continue Reading »
I am often asked where people can see recordings of my speeches. The Discovery Institute just posted online one I made there last year, called “Why Being Human Matters: Bioethics, Animal Liberation, and the Threat to Human Exceptionalism.” Hit this link, and I will appear after a very . . . . Continue Reading »
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