A German restaurant serves cuisine that only features food eaten by our ancient cave dwelling ancestors. From the Daily Mail Story:Proudly announcing a ‘Real Food Revolution - Paleolithic cuisine!’, there is no cheese, bread or sugar available, only fare accessible to our hunter-gatherer . . . . Continue Reading »
Readers of Secondhand Smoke and my other writings know that I have grown increasingly concerned at the deprofessionalization of medicine. Part of this is a self deconstruction in which medical organizations and many bioethicists have reduced doctors to so many order taking technocrats with . . . . Continue Reading »
A pretentious TITLE in view of what I say next. . . . . Continue Reading »
As a Biblical Christian, people worry that this will keep me from changing my mind. Since open-mindedness is often a good thing, they worry about me. Will I defy the evidence or facts in order to cling to Scripture?I will not, but perhaps merely saying so will not satisfy their just worries. Let me, . . . . Continue Reading »
So pretending that I belong to a religion that prohibits linking on the Sabbath, I will offer some quick comments. First, George Will whines that Romney is all competence and no ideology, a technocrat. He offers the example of Mitt’s unprincipled flip-flopping on ethanol (not a big issue). . . . . Continue Reading »
Not being one of the few whomever saw the ‘80s band Fishbone live in concert I suspect that my commentary as follows could be considered meaningless. But then I have always followed “alternative” music, and I have always appreciated bands like Fishbone. After watching the documentary . . . . Continue Reading »
Russell Moore has a nice post about how, although there’s generally a moral mandate upon Christians to adopt, there are plenty of people who ought not to be the ones to fulfill that mandate [ht: Justin Taylor]. In particular, certain kinds of issues tend to come up with adoptions . . . . Continue Reading »
This post isn’t about the propriety of the death penalty so much as it is about the dangers and profound crassness of utilitarian philosophy. Peter Singer has stated that if he was convinced of a utilitarian benefit to society from the death penalty, he would support . . . . Continue Reading »
Our friend Peter Lawler offers a brief appreciation of Pierre Manent here . It’s hard to tell where Lawler ends and Manent begins, but here’s a snippet: For Manent, who is among one of the most endangered of species, a French Catholic intellectual, the modern nation, at its best, . . . . Continue Reading »
There has been a controversial meme circulating for several years which holds that the abortion right resulted unintentionally in a reduction in crime. The idea, I think, is that the fetuses who became medical waste would, but for being aborted, have become children raised in unstable homes . . . . Continue Reading »
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