If you don’t know how you’ll cope with your existential boredom now that the election is over, don’t worry; Farhood Manjoo’s got you covered . My favorite suggestion: “If you missed ‘You Suck at Photoshop,’ the 20-episode Web series in which a disaffected . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at the Confabulum I’ve tried to continue rolling out my conceptual brief against ideology . Part of my contention there is that in democratic times the allure of ideology is the condensation of politics, religion, and culture into a single, concise, comprehensive doctrine. A political . . . . Continue Reading »
From the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide comes this frightening news : In 2008, assisted-suicide proponents targeted the state for a massive effort to make Washington only the second state to approve assisted suicide. With a voter initiative (I-1000) on the 2008 ballot, . . . . Continue Reading »
The fall 2008 campaign of 40 Days for Life officially concluded this past Sunday, but not before several hundred lives were saved : “Even after praying and fasting for 40 days—and being involved in vigils that in many cities went round the clock, seven days a week—many of the people . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . at least about this : As of early this morning, California’s Proposition 8 was passing with 52 percent of the vote (92 percent of precincts reporting). The proposition would amend the state’s constitution to say that “only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or . . . . Continue Reading »
This election season has only just come to its feverish crescendo, but some are already making big-picture analyses of the past year. Eric Gorski of the Associated Press advances the interesting thesis that the big loser in 2008 was religion : With a few exceptions, whatever seemed odd or fringe . . . . Continue Reading »
Speaking of the latest in scientific research, Vanity Fair has a wonderful article on the seventh annual Texas Bigfoot Conference , which was held in last month in Jefferson, Texas: In a high school cafetorium, a small man in his mid-70s was lecturing to a rapt audience of several hundred people. . . . . Continue Reading »
The culture of death once again has the wind in its sails after being moribund, at least as to assisted suicide, since 1994. There are many reasons for the loss having to do with the overwhelming financial backing from all around the world in favor of assisted suicide, to a popular former governor . . . . Continue Reading »
Racy television shows may promote teenage sexual behavior. From the story: Exposure to some forms of entertainment is a corrupting influence on children, leading teens who watch sexy programs into early pregnancies and children who play violent video games to adopt aggressive behavior, researchers . . . . Continue Reading »
Of course, anyone reading SHS and pondering this matter rationally, would realize that once assisted suicide/euthanasia consciousness becomes widely accepted, the categories of the terminated expand. And now, waddya know, a study of assisted suicide in Switzerland shows that an increasing number of . . . . Continue Reading »
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