The assisted suicide group Dignitas has opened it’s killing house next to a brothel. From the story: The Swiss assisted suicide group Dignitas, which was evicted from itsflat in Zurich after complaints about bodies in the lift, has opened whatneighbours have labelled a ‘death . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . the results are often unintentionally funny. Here’s Ricky Gervais’ take on God in the most recent issue of Best Life . Look, Gervais the comic actor is a scream. The Office undoubtedly deserved the accolades it garnered (despite one or two errant episodes, in which tastelessness . . . . Continue Reading »
Brave New Britain just keeps getting Braver and Newer: Now there is a serious discussion of putting the DNA of children into a database because they might become future criminals. From the story: Primary school children should be eligible for the DNA database if they exhibit behaviour indicating . . . . Continue Reading »
Now this is a particularly interesting illustration of the discrimination that the assisted suicide movement would imbed into the law. A man was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to five years in jail for assisting the suicide of his girlfriend. From the story:A man who gave a . . . . Continue Reading »
All I can say is, “Oh, bru—u—ther:” Animal rights activists are claiming that surrounding an elephant named Tai with a huge soap bubble—as an art project—would be “be thoroughly demeaning to Tai.” This comment from Mark Bekoff from the University of . . . . Continue Reading »
A reminder, for those in the Washington area: I’ll be lecturing this Monday, March 17, at Georgetown University. Called “Living with the Dead: Why Cities Need Cemeteries and Nations Need Memorials,” the talk is at 7:00 pm in the ICC auditorium . Cosponsored by the Tocqueville . . . . Continue Reading »
M.Z. Hemingway, journalist/blogger extraordinaire at Get Religion , has written this handy reference tool , now available at Modern Reformation magazine. Yes, atheism is not only old, it’s decrepit, and the only things new in the new atheism are those bar-code thingies on the dust jackets. . . . . Continue Reading »
PETA has always used nudity, for example of Alicia Silverstone, to attract young people—read boys and men—to the cause. But now it has the services of a hard core porn “actress” pushing synthetic leather called “pleather,” with the clear allusion to . . . . Continue Reading »
With more panache than the four in hand tie and less foppery than the ascot, the bow tie stands as the golden mean of distinction in men’s neckwear. I started wearing bow ties in my freshman year of high school, and over the years I’ve encountered many people who were surprised that yes, the . . . . Continue Reading »
The Episcopal Church has come in for more than its share of bad press over the past few years/decades, and the Anglican Communion is quickly becoming a synonym for entropy. But there are still bastions of orthodoxy that unabashedly hoist the flag of traditional 39-Article Anglicanism as it reaches . . . . Continue Reading »