TEAL is the Typo Eradification Advancement League. If you ever hear that our former managing editor, Anthony Sacramone, and I got banned from the National Park System for a year, I hope it’s for correcting the grammar of signs . . . . . Continue Reading »
A Boston Globe article says that George Orwell’s diaries will be put online one entry at a time. Click here to read along (and if you’re curious as to what Sloe Gin could be). . . . . Continue Reading »
Spending the money and scientific talent to perfect human cloning (SCNT) is becoming very hard to justify—if that is, all that is wanted are tailor made, patient specific stem cells for study of diseases and/or eventual therapeutic purposes. (Of course, therapeutic cloning is not the real . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s a story to give that science oriented part of your brain a real workout. Scientists in Japan and the United States have finished eight years of work on a computer model that simulates the formation of stars. The results of the study were published this month in the journal Science . . . . . Continue Reading »
As promised, I have a more extended piece up at the Weekly Standard Website demonstrating that the case for granting equal rights to chimpanzees with humans is not justified scientifically. First, I describe the ideological agenda behind the effort to reduce humans to the status of apes. From my . . . . Continue Reading »
Last night I finally saw Whit Stillman’s third movie, The Last Days of Disco , and it was more brilliant than I expected. The dialog in Stillman films all has the same complex, intelligent tone and one of my favorite conversations was this one on the movie Lady and the Tramp : Josh Neff: . . . . Continue Reading »
Everyone knows that dogs did not evolve, they were (and are still, technically) wolves that were intelligently designed by us.The tight bond between humans and our best friends, and more particularly their exposure to our love and our genetic and behavioral manipulation has created special traits . . . . Continue Reading »
Vigorous criticism of President Bush in conservative circles stopped seeming heretical a long time ago. That Bush’s foreign policy has been disastrous is one of the ‘facts’ that many conservatives feel they must grudgingly grant to their liberal antagonists. No doubt many . . . . Continue Reading »
Imagine: One day a police officer knocks on your door. Standing next to him is your son Johnny, who has a look on his face that tells you he’s either done something incredibly dumb and illegal, or he just ate an entire box of Moon Pies. You cross your arms and wait for the officer to tell you . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at The Catholic Thing, Hadley Arkes reflects on the Born-Alive Infants’ Protection Act, and the revelatory role of Senator Obama. When it comes to predicting the ethical tone of an Obama presidency, it shouldn’t be hard to play prophet: The very point of the bill was to confer . . . . Continue Reading »
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