Doritos and Pepsi are holding a contes t for a commercial to be aired during Super Bowl XLV. The top five finalists haven’t been announced yet, but I’ll be surprised if this entry doesn’t make the cut. Although it’s calibrated to offend people of almost every faith (even . . . . Continue Reading »
As I’ve noted before, I’ve been following presidential faith-based initiatives since early in the Bush Administration. I’ve hitherto been underwhelmed by faith-based 2.0, the Obama version. But Obama’s Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships must be doing . . . . Continue Reading »
It goes from the ridiculous to the sublime in Cancun. Now, surgery is a major cause of global warming! From the story:In the new study Professor Ole John Nielsen of Copenhagen found that two of the main anaesthetic gases used, sevoflurane and desflurane, are respectively 210 and 510 . . . . Continue Reading »
I have warned and warned that legalizing assisted suicide leads directly to permitting active euthanasia, as I once put it, like the left leg follows the right, while walking. And now, in Switzerland, a court has taken the poisonous leap. From the story:A regional criminal court in . . . . Continue Reading »
Good grief. Everybody wants a piece of global warming hysteria. According to a big brain at Cancun, global warming goes hand-in-hand with obesity because—get this—we exercise less due to methods of modern transportation. From the story:The world needs to go on a . . . . Continue Reading »
Four years ago, the story of “Ashley’s Treatment” broke into the news, roiling the bioethical waters. For those who may not recall, Ashley was a profoundly disabled 6-year-old girl whose parents and doctors decided to subject her to medically unnecessary . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter Augustine Lawler on much our democracy owes the Puritans : There’s little less fashionable today than praising the Puritans, especially for their egalitarian political idealism, their promotion of genuinely humane and liberating learning, and their capacity for enjoyment and human . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s your crazy stat of the day : According to a National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) report released Tuesday, one-third of all drug tests on drivers killed in motor vehicle accidents came back positive for drugs ranging from hallucinogens to prescription . . . . Continue Reading »
In Delivered From All Stain , today’s first “On the Square” article, I try to explain what the dogma of the Immaculate Conception says and why Catholics can believe with confidence something that really does, in my experience baffle and annoy, and sometimes even anger, their . . . . Continue Reading »
Where is Freud when you need him: Sometimes weather is just weather.Britain and other parts of Europe are in a real cold snap. It’s unusual weather, so it must be global warming, right? Uh, that would be no, at least according to the science. From the story: Is it the . . . . Continue Reading »
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