Oh, how the animal rights ideologues hated him. By him, I mean Dr. Robert Atkins, whose famous “Atkins Diet” has helped so many people lose weight through a low carbohydrate diet—meaning high on meat and other animal products. And that is all that mattered to them, to the point . . . . Continue Reading »
Watch in horror as a cruelly enslaved rabbit is forced to open a letter by her lazy . . . . Continue Reading »
Regular readers will have noticed that there were no new posts here at SHS for about a week. That wasn’t because I had nothing to say. (That will be the day!) Rather, and I won’t use the bad words that are in my mind, Blogger would not upload to my FTP.It got so bad, and I became so . . . . Continue Reading »
Terminal Non Judgmentalism Alert: An important professional journal aimed at pediatric nurses has discussed killing sick and profoundly disabled patients with studied neutrality.This is precisely how the Culture of Death permeates our society. A bioethical practice once almost universally condemned . . . . Continue Reading »
My friend David Martosko—who is the driving force behind the industry sponsored Center for Consumer Freedom—has a piece in today’s Seattle Post Intelligencer about the need to spend Leona Helmsley’s bequest to dogs on their welfare rather than animal rights proselytizing. . . . . Continue Reading »
A GP in the UK is accused of prescribing a suicidal elderly patient an overdose knowing that she wanted to die so as to not be a burden on her family. He’s in the soup. From the story:Dr Iain Kerr appeared before a General Medical Council (GMC) hearing in Manchester accused of prescribing . . . . Continue Reading »
I have written about Spain’s plan to pass the Great Ape Project (GAP) here at SHS previously. Now, I have a more extended piece on the issue in the current Weekly Standard on. From the article:But why grant apes rights? After all, if the Spanish parliament deems these animals insufficiently . . . . Continue Reading »
South Dakota is full of dead and dying towns: the ones at the bottom of the giant reservoirs along the Missouri, the gold-rush shacks abandoned to tilt further down their crazy angles on the hillsides, the ones the railroad murdered by going somewhere else, the ones the Great Depression killed, the . . . . Continue Reading »
Yes, well, perhaps that computerized translation program didn’t work out as well as it could for this Chinese restaurant, whose owners seem to have thought that the error message they got was the English translation for which they had asked. But, I don’t know, the food at a place called . . . . Continue Reading »
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