Christmas is a festive time—but lest we grow too festive, the Archbishop of Canterbury has taken the opportunity to remind us that many of the elements in the traditional Nativity story are mythical. Indeed, “Dr Williams concluded that Jesus was probably not born in December at all. He . . . . Continue Reading »
The Cinderella Man, Russell Crowe, has persuaded the board members of his rugby club to remove its 160 slot machines from the premises. “Family friendly” is how he wants it. And what Maximus Decimus Meridias wants . . . “We are not moralising here, we just believe that low-income . . . . Continue Reading »
Re: women freezing eggs or couples genetically designing babies, I agree that both will happen in the future, but I’m not sure how common either will be. In discussing Dworkin’s article about the former yesterday, I subtly added to Dworkin’s analysis an assumption that such . . . . Continue Reading »
Fortune magazine has issued its annual list of the year’s top goofs from big technology companies. Google manages to make multiple appearances on the list, but my prediction for the frontrunner, Diebold’s several disasters with voting machines, came in only second. The winner was the . . . . Continue Reading »
“Why We Chose Vlad” ? Fought for and won independence from Ottomans ? Championed republican values by eliminating entrenched aristocrat interest groups ? Youngest man ever to be awarded Order of the Dragon ? Although known for torturing and mutilating small animals, no history of dog . . . . Continue Reading »
Can you vote for a 1960s-model James Bond knock-off for president? If so, would you believe Steve Carell as Agent 86 in 2008? If there’s one thing our country needs right now is reliable intelligence. But then again, John Rambo has such solid foreign-policy experience. As opposed to Iron Man . . . . Continue Reading »
Rob is on to something when he says we’ll soon be living in a world where women will “have some of their eggs harvested and frozen in their twenties, spend a couple of decades building a career, and then use the eggs to become pregnant in their forties or fifties.” And . . . . Continue Reading »
I sometimes hear from people with serious illnesses telling me they are thinking about getting stem cell treatments from non reliable sources. I always urge them not to and be careful. Here is one reason why: A woman is being jailed for falsely promising to cure Lou Gehrig’s disease with stem . . . . Continue Reading »
The New York Times has a funny article not on a devotional practice, but on the consequences of a devotional practice. As we all know, devout Muslims pray five times a day in the direction of Mecca as one of the five pillars of their faith. The news regularly runs footage of crowds kneeling in . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s a tale of woe. According to this story in the American Lawyer , lawyers in Manhattan’s elite law firms—the kinds of places where partners make $1 million a year and more—are depressed because they don’t make as much money as financial professionals. Alas, . . . . Continue Reading »
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