A radical in one area generally thinks radically in every other area. Witness utilitarian bioethicist Peter—let’s permit infanticide—Singer, who has now weighed in on global warming. Predictably, it is an extreme view. From the story:We asked Australia’s best-known . . . . Continue Reading »
In the current wars over global warming we are seeing an example of scientists behaving badly. I am not referring just to the hacked e-mails that everyone is talking about. Far more disturbing to me is the recent tactic of labeling any scientist who expresses skepticism about the extent of . . . . Continue Reading »
If French politician Valérie Boyer has her way , advertisements that feature air-brushed photographs of models may soon come with the same sort of disclaimers regularly seen in food ads—enlarged (or reduced, as the case may be) to create unrealistic expectations: Valérie Boyer is 47, . . . . Continue Reading »
I couldn’t make this MSNBC headline up: “Earth Could Plunge into Sudden Ice Age.” And the cause? Why, that old bogeyman, global warming. From the story:In the film, “The Day After Tomorrow,” the world gets gripped in ice within the span of just a few weeks. Now . . . . Continue Reading »
I cannot express my disappointment in Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in sufficiently strong terms. I voted for him despite knowing he was not my cup of tea in some areas because I believed he would get tough on California’s potentially terminal budget problems. Now, it is years later, . . . . Continue Reading »
Frank Capra and Ayn Rand aren’t often mentioned together. Yet the cheery director of Capra-corn and the dour novelist who created Objectivism have much in common. Both were immigrants who made their names in Hollywood. Both were screenwriters and employees of the film studio RKO. And during . . . . Continue Reading »
This is disturbing sign of what we’ve passed on to the younger generations : Researchers were conducting a study comparing the views of men in their 20s who had never been exposed to pornography with regular users. But their project stumbled at the first hurdle when they failed to find a . . . . Continue Reading »
Question: What, if anything, is wrong with this video? I attempted to articulate one answer over at Mere-Orthodoxy. I highly commend Rhett Smith’s analysis as well, as Rhett is a therapist who is very sensitive to these issues. I love thinking about marriage because it . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, Al Gore has finally met his match. First, NASA’s James Hansen hopes Copenhagen will fail, not because it would destroy economies, but because it wouldn’t destroy them hard enough. From the story:In an interview with the Guardian, James Hansen, the world’s pre-eminent . . . . Continue Reading »
I could make the old joke about men dying earlier because we have to put up with women, but Secondhand Smokette would validate the study by killing me. So let me just skip the bad joke and get to the report that claims men are genetically doomed to earlier deaths. From the story:In . . . . Continue Reading »
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