Ought we to want a bapistry that lets us “flip a switch and forget it”? If so, they’ve got us covered over at ChurchPools.com, where the “Easy Fill system allows you to flip a switch and forget it! The baptistery will fill, and maintain until ready.” [Rating: . . . . Continue Reading »
Please pardon this lengthy post, but in light of our recent conversations about the organismic status of the early embryo as biological human life, I thought it was worth discussing how and why the term came to be redefined to exclude early embryos from membership in the human race.The story is . . . . Continue Reading »
There is only one domestic suspected terrorist on the FBI’s “most wanted terrorist.” His name is Daniel Andreas San Diego, who hails from my neck of the woods in Berkeley, CA. San Diego has been on the run for years after allegedly bombing a local company that refused to promise to . . . . Continue Reading »
From the WSJ, a story on baseball’s most distinctive accoutrement—the stirrup sock: Early stirrups were white, just inches high. Sewn to the ends of dyed tubes, they blended with the undersocks, making them hard to see. Then designs advanced to one-piece solids, and the half moons rose. . . . . Continue Reading »
Required listening: First Things ’ editor Joseph Bottum discusses the future of the magazine with features editor R.R. Reno. . . . . Continue Reading »
Huh. I guess the interview matters more than I thought: Miss California says candor cost her the crown in Sunday’s Miss USA competition. Carrie Prejean, 21, probably knew she was in trouble when she acknowledged her opposition to same-sex marriages in response to a question from openly gay . . . . Continue Reading »
Last week, the National Institutes of Health announced its draft funding rules for embryonic stem cell research. Yuval Levin explains : On their face, the new NIH rules are essentially the Clinton administration guidelines, which were published in 2000 though never actually put into effect. They . . . . Continue Reading »
An admittedly weird vision struck me yesterday. But it’s lingered through to this morning, so consider : The US recession has opened up the biggest gap between male and female unemployment rates since records began in 1948, as men bear the brunt of the economy’s contraction. [ . . . ] . . . . Continue Reading »
Considering the continual revisionist biology about what constitutes a human embryo we have heard in the halls of Congress and from among some members of the science intelligentsia, I thought it worth revisiting an old Nature editorial that decries the sophistic attempt within bioethics and the . . . . Continue Reading »
A famous global warming scientist issued an alarming study today finding that too much sex is a major cause of global warming. “All that heavy breathing releases tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere,” Dr, Raymond Sunburn, the head of the Aspen/Davos Collective’s think tank, . . . . Continue Reading »
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