I am restarting the poll I posted earlier because commenters complained, and properly, that I had not done a good enough job creating choices. So, I have added two excellent suggestions. One more time! What is the most important purpose of society? ( . . . . Continue Reading »
Freddie DeBoer, PoMoCon commenter extraordinaire, has fired a broadside in our direction . James is working on a response . I’m getting ready to do the same. Nicola has penned a snarky rebuttal . Eve rebutted this long ago . Here’s hoping that this heats up. . . . . Continue Reading »
Christian Human Rights organizations are justly praising British foreign secretary David Miliband for condemning the Iranian Parliament for their draft apostasy bill: [W]e deplore the way in which the Iranian Parliament is also now discussing a draft penal code that would set out a mandatory death . . . . Continue Reading »
The latest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature is a Frenchman with the marvelously French name of Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio . Perhaps his writing is quite as marvelous as his name, but the terms in which the Nobel committee praises him make me suspicious of their criteria. Much . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s a a sample of the Times’ (London) review, via Arts & Letters Daily , of Rowan Williams’ new book on Dostoevsky: There are many insights in Dostoevsky: Language, faith and fiction which will illumine its subject’s novels, and which could only have come from this . . . . Continue Reading »
I cannot respond to every blog entry or story about assisted suicide that is filled with deplorable sentiments or outright lies, not to mention anti-religious bigotry. They are just too ubiquitous!But this one requires comment because it applies the “V-word” like a bludgeon in the title . . . . Continue Reading »
A new study from the British Medical Journal has found that one in four terminally ill patients in Oregon who opt for physician-assisted suicide suffer from clinical depression: Oregon’s physician-assisted suicide law may not adequately protect the one in four terminally ill patients with . . . . Continue Reading »
Animal rights radicals who engage in ALF and SHAC terrorism presume to put on the mantle Martin Luther King and Gandhi, claiming that their threats, bombings, vandalism, identity theft, harassment, and intimidation is right out of the civil disobedience playbook. And PETA refuses to condemn, . . . . Continue Reading »
Adherents to the “quality of life ethic” and those of a utilitarian mindset would have been quite content to see the little girl who is the subject of this story die, rather than live with the cognitive and developmental impairments caused by having half her brain surgically removed. . . . . Continue Reading »
The LA Times today gives one more reason why embryonic stem-cell research should become unnecessary: Scientists have converted cells from human testes into stem cells that grew into muscle, nerve cells and other kinds of tissue, according to a study published Wednesday in the online edition of . . . . Continue Reading »
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