Wesley J. Smith

A woman’s tribute to Kevorkian—a tattoo of one of his paintings.  He was a committed nihilist who said that the worst moment of his life was when he was born. I don’t know the woman, but tattooing that painting on your back for the rest of your life...well that’s a . . . . Continue Reading »

Everything is dangerous.  Everything.  Including sitting down:  From the CBS San Francisco story:Smoking cigarettes is the cause of so much preventable, deadly disease. But now new research shows sitting for long stretches of time may be just as dangerous. “Smoking certainly is . . . . Continue Reading »

Australia has feral camel problem. Not being marsupials, they are of course, not indigenous to the continent. Australia also has a bad case of global warming hysteria within the political leadership class. (To get elected, PM Julia Gillard promised not to enact a cap and trade law, and then openly . . . . Continue Reading »

After Jack Kevorkian died, I was asked by several publications to reflect on his death.  I did so in The Corner previously, and now I have two pieces out today bringing different angles to the same story.  First from the National Catholic Register:We should not speak ill of the dead, we . . . . Continue Reading »

No respectable public advocacy campaign should tolerate anti-Semitism in its name.  But the anti circumcision movement allowed one of its prime leaders—Matthew Hess—to engage in the most rank bigotry with his Mohel Monster character in the “Foreskin Man” comic book . . . . Continue Reading »

I don’t oppose transgenic use of animals to obtain legitimate medical substances.  For example, Dolly the cloned sheep was manufactured as the first step toward creating a genetically altered sheep herd that produced a protein useful in the creation of medicines.  That effort went . . . . Continue Reading »

Yesterday, conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, in the wake of Jack Kevorkian’s demise, had a good column against legalizating assisted suicide. I didn’t post it because it closely tracked with what I have written here and elsewhere.  Now liberal Washington Post . . . . Continue Reading »

We have discussed the issue of MM and SF’s proposed ban on circumcision until we are blue in the face, and so I am not permitting further comments here. But I thought some might be interested in this front page SF Chron story.Here’s the . . . . Continue Reading »

Way to go, Obamacarians!  Opponents warned that the law incentivized private employers to drop health insurance companies and pay the fines, that will be less expensive than providing coverage.  And now, a report published in the McKinsey Quarterly shows that 30% of employers are planning . . . . Continue Reading »

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi vows not to cut Medicare.  From Politico: “There is a bipartisan discussion going on that is civil and constructive, and that they’ve come to some areas where they can possibly reach agreement. But nothing is agreed to until everything is agreed . . . . Continue Reading »