We hear often from assisted suicide advocates that most who die by doctor prescribed death in Oregon were in hospice—as if that makes it okay. I have indicated here and elsewhere, that this merely means assisted suicide facilitators have interfered with proper medical treatment for these . . . . Continue Reading »
Beowulf contains a great many lessons relevant to daily living. First, don’t go to sleep near the hero or the monster will eat you. Second, after you kill a monster don’t go to sleep before knowing whether the monster has a mother bent on vengeance. If you don’t take care, she . . . . Continue Reading »
A murder suspect has defended his actions as suicide assistance. From the story in the Seattle Times:A man arrested Monday in connection with the slaying of another man claims he merely helped the victim commit suicide, according to a Seattle police report...The 32-year-old suspect had a . . . . Continue Reading »
The term “global warming denier” is so offensive because it seeks to attach skepticism about the warming and/or its supposed Draconian solutions with denying the Holocaust and being “anti science.” But that kind of disparagement doesn’t work except among those who . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the memorable songs of the 1980s is ” Living on a Thin Line “ by the Kinks. Largely unknown, it underwent something of a revival after it was used, of all things, for an episode on The Sopranos . The song has been interpreted many ways ; some think its about the fragility of . . . . Continue Reading »
Over the past twenty or so years, publishers have turned out a steady stream of Christian worldview books, which together have altered the conversation over the relationship between faith and cultural activities in God’s world. Most of these have sought to reshape a “Christian . . . . Continue Reading »
As September 11 passed, I found myself thinking about the Ground Zero mosque, and the bizarre on-again, off-again story of planned Koran burning in Florida. Why, I found myself wondering, have these stories come to the fore? I’m more and more convinced that these strange episodes—as well . . . . Continue Reading »
It was a tradition I was rather fond of: Once a year or so, like the turning of the leaves, my friend Christopher Hitchens would take aim at something I’d written. His most recent , just pointed out to me by an acquaintance on Facebook, is in the journal Free Inquiry . Appearing under the . . . . Continue Reading »
Each day I use Google Reader to sift through roughly a thousand posts on a couple of hundred blogs (310 to be exact) in order to find material for daily blog posts and the 33 Things feature. Still, it’s not nearly enough to find the content I need. There are at least a few hundred more worthy . . . . Continue Reading »
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