Wesley J. Smith

A terrible serial child molester has undergone surgical castration as part of a plea deal to let him out of prison.  From the story:A 78-year-old Louisiana state prisoner was surgically castrated this week at a hospital in Baton Rouge as part of a plea deal in a child molestation case. The . . . . Continue Reading »

I would say “dead man walking,” but such political metaphors are verboten if one is perceived as right of center.  Nevertheless, as I predicted, Donald Berwick’s time as head of Medicare/Medicaid will end this year.Recap: Berwick is a vocal health care rationing . . . . Continue Reading »

Since when is keeping the desire to keep one’s mother nourished grounds for removing them from a say in her medical decision making?  When an immigrant family wants their mother to receive a feeding tube and the hospital no longer wants to be on the financial hook for providing it.  . . . . Continue Reading »

I believe in human equality, but that doesn’t mean we should not distinguish ourselves from each other regarding our societal functions.  I bring this up because a medical student named William W. Motley argues that doctors should give up their white coats.  It’s an interesting . . . . Continue Reading »

Environmentalism has taken on a distinctly anti human hue in recent years—which is why I got interested in discussing it here.  Latest example: We are supposedly calling a mass extinction event.  From the story:Mankind may have unleashed the sixth known mass extinction in . . . . Continue Reading »

The credibility of the global warming meme continues to sink.  We are often told by alarmist apologists that we rubes irrationally refuse to believe the “settled scientific fact ” of AGW.  But that is reductionist because there is much more to the issue than whether the earth . . . . Continue Reading »

I read the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy between Christmas and New Year’s Day, 1966, when I was a senior in high school.  My best friend Malcolm gave me the books for Christmas.  When the “black riders” first appeared, I was utterly transported to a different . . . . Continue Reading »

Judge Vinson ruled a month ago that Obamacare is unconstitutional.  He refused to issue an injunction at the time, presuming naively that the administration would respect his opinion and act accordingly. But as the judge has learned, this  is not an administration that respects the rule of . . . . Continue Reading »

Over at Secondhand Smoke , I posted a small comment about a controversy in the UK involving a restaurant that is going to serve ice cream made from human milk.  I worried that this was a telling incident about the hedonistic and vulgar times in which we live, writing: Hedonism is not just . . . . Continue Reading »

The medical marijuana movement, to a large degree, was used by activists—whose real goal was recreational license—as the proverbial foot in the door.  They hid behind sick people, used them, really, and began calling cannabis “medicine.”  But then they lit up for . . . . Continue Reading »