I did an interview with a Catholic radio show last Friday that focused pretty hard on assisted suicide, futile care, eugenics, hospice, and bioethics. It was a call-in show and a couple of hospice nurses called offering some interesting comments. If you want to hear me spout hot air and emit . . . . Continue Reading »
You know it’s really getting ugly when the British Medical Association, not exactly known for radical agitation, may urge its member doctors to walk out of the UK’s National Health Service. From the story:A mass exodus of GPs from the NHS is being considered by the British Medical . . . . Continue Reading »
Thanks to our emailers for all the help with a name for words formed from roots in different languages. “Hybrid word” was a common suggestion, though it seems more a description than a name. Macaronic turns out to be the word I was trying to come up with, though it seems technically to . . . . Continue Reading »
Tomorrow morning, on the Catholic Channel’s Seize the Day program with host Gus Lloyd, Sylvester Stallone will be talking about Rambo IV —and perhaps his own faith. His segment is scheduled for 9 a.m. The Catholic Channel is on Sirius Satellite Radio, channel 159. Even if you don’t . . . . Continue Reading »
Although I sympathize with much of what Senator DeMint and Professor Woodard say in their Web article last week, I think some of their arguments go too far. The main point that Senator DeMint and Professor Woodard make is that “the First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and the practice . . . . Continue Reading »
As a California resident, I am painfully aware that my state is sinking in a red sea of debt. Yet, the borrowing to support human cloning research continues. Last week, Investor’s Business Daily noticed and in “The Bullet Missed,” argues that the time has come for a little fiscal . . . . Continue Reading »
There’s a name that curmudgeonly grammarians give to words derived from more than one language—and for the life of me, I can’t think of it. Television is a famous example, a Greek prefix on a Latin stem. Uber-theocon is another, less-famous example, a epithet someone or other flung . . . . Continue Reading »
Last week, Rusty Reno commented on the protests at Sapienzia University in Rome and Benedict XVI’s gracious bowing out. Well, this weekend over 200,000 students (both young and old) poured into St. Peter’s Square in a sign of support. (More details and pictures here .) The text of the . . . . Continue Reading »
We’re sending the March issue of FT to the printer today, which means things are busy in the office. So, instead of writing something new about what it’s like to work at FT, here’s what I said last year : If you’re a young writer or thinker—finishing your undergraduate . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . is sending refugees to Florida , which no doubt will make that state even more conservative. Ah the law of unintended consequences . . . (Those Joseph Kennedy/Citgo commercials —they probably don’t run in Miami, right? I mean, because of the climate and all.) . . . . Continue Reading »
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