? If Preston Sturges or Howard Hawks had wanted to make a screwball comedy about modern American covert operations that was also a not-so-covert commentary on the current war in Iraq, Charlie Wilson’s War would have been it. ? Yes, sir—killing Russians has never been such a gas. And to . . . . Continue Reading »
This is a bit off topic, but I think it is worth pondering. This link will take you to photos of what different families eat in one week. The disparity is sobering. Here are a few samples:Germany:Mexico:Ecuador:Refugee Camp in . . . . Continue Reading »
This is a terribly tragic case: Javona Peters has been diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state (a terrible name for a diagnosis, the only one I know of which contains a pejorative, a derivation of the V word). She became unconscious less than three months ago, and so the diagnosis seems . . . . Continue Reading »
An article in Commentary by former Bush Administration staffer Jay P. Lefkowitz is a very interesting read. It amounts to an inside story about how and why President Bush made his controversial stem cell funding decision that has caused “the scientists” and media so much heartburn. It is . . . . Continue Reading »
In the January issue of Commentary , there’s a fascinating article called “Stem Cells and the President—An Inside Account,” written by Jay Lefkowitz, who was the official “primarily responsible for advising the President” on the issue of stem cells during the . . . . Continue Reading »
? It’s late thirties England and a little rich girl named Briony Tallis with an overlarge vocabulary and pretensions to literary greatness tells a big fat lie to the police and ruins the life of her sister’s love interest (James McAvoy) because, well, she’s got a crush on him too, . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at Beliefnet , Michael Kress has a coup of an interview —one that includes audio clips—with Denzel Washington, who starred in two films this year: American Gangster and the just-released The Great Debaters —both based on true stories. Like all the Bnet interviews, which have . . . . Continue Reading »
Repressed-memory syndrome—a claim that dissociative amnesia follows a traumatic experience—was one of the most popular psychiatric diagnosis in the 1980s and 1990s. Back in 2003, Paul McHugh wrote what was probably the definitive account of the long struggle by a handful of psychiatrists . . . . Continue Reading »
So, the actor Will Smith tells a British newspaper that “Even Hitler didn’t wake up going, ‘let me do the most evil thing I can do today.’” Whereupon he is pilloried for praising Hitler. Roger Kimball has a solid roundup of the supposed scandal. Will Smith is, at the . . . . Continue Reading »
Animal rights terrorists are again threatening Oxford University in the UK for building a laboratory that will do research with animals. From the story:Animal rights campaigners are threatening a new wave of attacks on Oxford University as its biomedical laboratory nears completion. Groups such as . . . . Continue Reading »
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