“So if someone were to come up with a catch phrase as simple and vague as ‘Yes, We Can’ . . . ” “Oh, awful. They would have an entire army of extremely energetic, insufferably annoying, mindless pawns at their command.” The Onion analyzes a new gripping problem: . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the most important services that medical professionals can offer to the people they serve, I think, is to declare their offices and facilities to be “assisted suicide free zones.” Indeed, I hope that medical organizations create plaques and certificates to that doctors and health . . . . Continue Reading »
This may hurt a little. Any man, no matter who, will respond to a recording of his own voice with "Wait, I really sound like that?" That’s what I felt last week as I heard a smart young student speak in praise of suffering at an ISI lecture, for the slightly embarrassing reason that . . . . Continue Reading »
Fred Kaplan says that the “very fact of a black president with multinational roots unhinges the terrorists’ recruitment poster of a racist, parochial, Muslim-hating United States.” I hear this claim all the time, but I don’t buy it. Is anti-racism really a driving passion in . . . . Continue Reading »
Has anyone checked the sea levels today? . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m with you, Amanda . A yes vote on California’s Proposition 8 would ban gay marriage and would trump the court’s imposition of gay marriage on the people of California. The final tallies are not in, but it looks like the attempt to legalize gay marriage has been narrowly . . . . Continue Reading »
The UK has apparently promulgated a hyper-detailed set of regulations governing the treatment of animals. Rather than properly guard against actual abuse, it also bans permitting dogs to beg at the table and cats kept from looking out windows. From the story: The guidelines cover the environment for . . . . Continue Reading »
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 »
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