Wesley J. Smith

No, the cat character isn’t based on . . . . Continue Reading »

I have long held that much of the irrational hatred directed at Sarah Palin—not political opposition, but the hatred—is because she dared to knowingly give birth to a baby with Down syndrome. This suspicion is heightened by this disgusting blog entry by the Wonkette blog discussing a . . . . Continue Reading »

The media never tire of fawning stories about people who assist others in self destruction. The latest example of this journalistic groupieism comes out of the Vancouver Sun, in which a reporter goes to the home of an assisted suicide facilitator named Russell Ogden.From the story, byline Douglas . . . . Continue Reading »

This is very sad but I think it qualifies as a form of the profound anti-humanism that is running rampant in the world. A man in Japan wants to marry a cartoon and has started a petition drive to pressure the government to permit it. From the story: A Japanese man has enlisted hundreds of people in . . . . Continue Reading »

This is shameful eugenics, morally akin in my view, to laws in the USA that barred disfavored nationalities and Jews in the years running up to World War II. A German family has asked for permanent residency in Australia and the country said no because their son has Down syndrome. From the story:A . . . . Continue Reading »

This is the way things go with socialized medicine. The health care rationers are going to take months to decide whether to cover a new chemotherapy. From the story:Kidney cancer patients will have to wait months for the NHS drugs rationing body to decide if they can have new drugs after guidance . . . . Continue Reading »

I try to be a realist and an idealist. I promote human exceptionalism, knowing that as an imperfect species, we are unlikely to ever fully achieve the dream of universal human equality. But the only way to get very close, it seems to me, is for our reach to exceed our grasp. That’s my . . . . Continue Reading »

In these darkening days, a little humor is always useful. With Halloween (my least favorite holiday) fast approacing, this primer in surviving zombie attacks is timely. My favorite part is the advice to kill infected friends “with dignity.” . . . . Continue Reading »

Jane Goodall the primatologist (and novelist since so much of her work is anthropomorphic, a charge she readily admits), along with fellow primatologist Toshisada Nishida, have won the coveted Leakey Prize, named after Louis Leakey, the famed anthropologist who sought to prove that humans first . . . . Continue Reading »

Why do media so often describe non-dying people who want assisted suicide as terminally ill? Is it on purpose? Mostly, I don’t think so. I think they have accepted a false premise; that assisted suicide is about terminal illness. So when someone who is not dying wants assisted suicide, . . . . Continue Reading »