Joel Heng Hartse, a frequent music critic for Christianity Today , muses about coming of age in the heyday of Christian pop music: Really, my concept of “Christian music,” which begins in about 1980 and ends in 2000 (around the time I got bored with it), is nothing but a snapshot. It . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday, John McCain took to the Senate floor to set the record straight about waterboarding and the intelligence that led us to Osama bin Laden: With so much misinformation being fed into such an essential public debate as this one, I asked the Director of Central Intelligence, Leon Panetta, for . . . . Continue Reading »
The NEJM has long been off the cliff when it comes to medical ethics. But now, it wants to sacrifice constitutionalism and representative governance on the altar of controlling healthcare costs by expanding the powers of IPAB over the entire health care sector.The misnamed Medicare Independent . . . . Continue Reading »
Joe, whatever the case might be for punctuating as the British do , the explanation for the ubiquity of the British style on the internet is surely not the necessities of correct computer coding . How many ordinary bloggers have ever written a line of code in their lives? As for Ben . . . . Continue Reading »
A link to this old 2002 interview of me by the radical transhumanist, J. Hughes, came over the transom today. This was recorded only shortly after I became involved with the animal rights issue and two years before I published Consumer’s Guide to a Brave New World. This was . . . . Continue Reading »
I have a great respect for the Roman Catholic tradition in political and social thought, and believe that some of the most interesting and “provocative” contemporary commentators depend very heavily on that tradition. I saw this morning the letter written by some prominent . . . . Continue Reading »
Sarah Palin is the Bermuda Triangle of political commentary. No matter the number of writers who have bravely gone where others have gone before, column space and magazine covers continue to find themselves sucked into the increasingly black hole of “commentary” on the ongoing saga of the . . . . Continue Reading »
The British may not be able to spell words correctly (it’s color , old chap, not colour ) but I think they get it mostly right when it comes to punctuation. For instance, the American style places commas and periods inside quotation marks, except in situations when it could cause confusion . . . . Continue Reading »
I didn’t know Dr. S. videoed my physical yesterday:After “The Singularity,” Secondhand Smokette and I upload as GPS computers. I’ll let you guess who is who:Radical environmentalists continue to plan our Great Green . . . . Continue Reading »
Lung stem cells have been discovered in rodents that could lead to disease treatments. From the AP Story:Scientists believe they’ve discovered stem cells in the lung that can make a wide variety of the organ’s tissues, a finding that might open new doors for treating emphysema and . . . . Continue Reading »
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