I was sipping a glass of red wine, just now—reading the NYT Sunday Magazine. I almost choked. After fighting for two weeks with Arianna Huffington over the role of news aggregation sites—and I sure have no dog in that fight!—editor Bill Keller this week took computer chip in . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . as the conservative reality show (according to ME ). . . . . Continue Reading »
Another big breakthrough on the IPSC front: Skin cells from a patient with Parkinson’s—a variety caused by a genetic condition—have been turned into neural cells, and then studied as the Parkinson’s destroys the tissue. From the story:There are no cures because research . . . . Continue Reading »
What difference does it make if Francis Collins is a Christian and Christopher Hitchens is an atheist? Hitchens has cancer and Collins is working on individualized cancer treatments based on genetics. But that is the hook for this Telegraph story:The author of God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons . . . . Continue Reading »
Animal rights ideology states that there should be no domesticated animals of any kind and no human utilitarian uses of animals of any sort. This would cause great human harm, which animal rights/liberation theorists try to downplay so as to not lose any chance of suading the public to their . . . . Continue Reading »
Philosophy TV posted several reflections on issues related to Christmas during Christmas week last year. Jason Brennan’s contribution presents the Christmas story (i.e. the gospel) as a bad story about an immoral divinity.I chose not to post this actually near Christmas, but when I saw . . . . Continue Reading »
I posted here the other day about the Abby Dorn case, in which an ex husband was trying to prevent visitation between his ex wife and their children, based it seemed to me from the story on her disability and his loathing of her mother. Not knowing all the facts, I didn’t opine—but . . . . Continue Reading »
For those interested why I don’t think the Libyan War is just: . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Oxford English Dictionary Adds ♥ It is a decision likely to break the hearts of traditionalists. Once the sole preserve of tacky tourist T-shirts, the heart symbol – as in I ‘heart’ New York – has become the first graphical entry in the Oxford English Dictionary in its . . . . Continue Reading »
Coup de Culture operatives—utilitarianism, hedonism, scientism/earth religion—get them while they are young. Part of destroying Judeo/Christian moral philosophy (of which human exceptionalism is a vital part) is the pop culture campaign against personal behavioral restraint . . . . Continue Reading »
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