There was a just down-right bizarre op/ed in Sunday’s New York Times . Here’s the penultimate paragraph: Unfortunately, humans seem to forget this fact when we find ourselves turning to nature to guide us through difficult choices, such as arguments about whether life begins at . . . . Continue Reading »
Or so says t his report . There’s something fishy here. First of all, it was conducted by the United Nations. Did they offer respondents food for an “N/A” response? And why is Asma Jahangir, a UN “special rapporteur” (is that anything like a really good . . . . Continue Reading »
Are you as sick of this kind of nanny state advocacy as I am? So called “experts,”—who I have come to believe are the cause of most society’s problems—are now proclaiming obesity to be more dangerous than terrorism. From the story: World governments are focusing too . . . . Continue Reading »
George Soros is a big fan of euthanasia and assisted suicide and wants to see it legalized everywhere. Toward this end, Soros has donated millions to groups promoting the cause—which I believe to be an ultimately abandoning policy that implicitly tells people with terminal illnesses and other . . . . Continue Reading »
From the New York Times Magazine article: ” Did You Hear the One About the Christian Comedian? ” Renfroe is also a devout Christian and for about eight years has been slowly building a career as a comedian on the Christian women’s circuit. Like Mike Huckabee’s easy humor, . . . . Continue Reading »
A few weeks ago, William Saletan reviewed the new book Embryo in the New York Times Book Review . Robert George and Chris Tollefsen (the co-authors of Embryo ) replied the next day in an article for National Review Online . Saletan replied later that week with an article on Slate . Now George and . . . . Continue Reading »
“I’m thinkin’ cardboard,” says Jerry, one of the strange creatures that frequent Be Kind Rewind, a ramshackle mom-and-pop videostore in Passaic, New Jersey. And the film Be Kind Rewind is loaded with cardboard, as in the cheap casings of those relics of the 1980s—VHS . . . . Continue Reading »
I had a wonderful time speaking in the Tri City area of Washington as the campaign to kill the assisted suicide proposal begins. But it was a travel day from hell getting home. It’s at times like this that I turn to the SHS Funnies:Lio does Richard Dawkins a personal favor:The Larry the Croc . . . . Continue Reading »
The deconstruction of the CIRM, enacted by California, is earnestly to be wished. That won’t happen, but at the very least, given its many troubles, a good reorganization is needed. That is apparently the idea behind a bill in California. From the story in Entrepreneur.Com (no link):California . . . . Continue Reading »
Doctors deciding who will be allowed to fight to remain alive and who will be forced out of treatment is epidemic in the UK where nationalized health care combined with huge influence by utilitarian bioethicists results in some patients being thrown out of the lifeboat.This is a case of a near miss. . . . . Continue Reading »
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