Palliative sedation is a legitimate form of pain control that is required in only very rare cases. But death squad medicine advocates seek to use it as a way of making people die by putting them in comas and then denying food and water, something that is sometimes called terminal sedation.The . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . even if, like Germany’s Gerhard Schröder, German Chancellor from 1998-2005, you are of the general social democrat mode, you rely on centralized government action too much, and you are not above stoking rabid denunciation of U.S. efforts to fight terrorism and WMD proliferation for . . . . Continue Reading »
Recently I posted a comment criticizing the ruling of a German court in Cologne prohibiting the circumcision of male infants, even for religious reasons. I’ve received a great many responses to my comment, pro and con, and to my surprise they seem to be breaking down (albeit not perfectly) . . . . Continue Reading »
A correction that the Harvard Crimson must be proud of: An earlier version of this article used the pronoun “she” to refer to Vanidy “Van” Bailey, the newly appointed director of bisexual, gay, lesbian, transgender, and queer student life. In fact, Bailey prefers not to be . . . . Continue Reading »
I ran across a story in the San Francisco Chronicle , in which scientists are studying the brains of Buddhist nuns and monks in order to see what “compassion” looks like. But Buddhism isn’t about compassion, properly understood. Buddhists seek to become detached from, . . . . Continue Reading »
Two thoughts: First, Buddhism tends to be the favorite religion of liberalism. No God. No sin. No judgmentalism. Plenty of consequences—karma and all, but I think that gets forgotten. Second, I am not a scientist, but it seems to me that these days, scientific hypotheses . . . . Continue Reading »
With Sirius XM radio you can hear the darndest things on a four hour drive from Dallas to Houston, like the same live Obama speech told both in Ohio and later at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh. After telling the same jokes—including a shout out from Bo the First Dog—the . . . . Continue Reading »
So Real Clear Politics says that Romney’s short list for Vice President is down to Paul Ryan, Rob Portman, Tim Pawlenty, and Bobby Jindal. I’ll focus on Pawlenty and Jindal fora moment. First, let’s remember that Romney’s real running mate is the Bureau of Labor . . . . Continue Reading »
I case in the UK raised my eyebrow—as so much happening there does these days. A convicted murderer in a mental hospital wants to starve himself to death, but can’t because he is not in a prison—where he apparently could. From the Telegraph story:Brady, 74, had been . . . . Continue Reading »
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