As a former resident of Louisiana, I have a hard time wrapping my mind around the oil disaster. The scope is difficult to contemplate. In my travels around the Internet, I ran across this website, where you can put in your hometown or any other location and see just how large the . . . . Continue Reading »
It is not clear to me how much of Jody Bottum’s moral analysis in ” Blood for Blood ” and ” They Did It ” is meant to apply only to sad case of the person just executed and how much is meant to apply to all uses of the death penalty by modern states. I will only address . . . . Continue Reading »
We all know the circumspect pro-lifers who will endorse restricting abortion only to rapidly follow their statement with a modifier. It goes like this:But if you plan on telling women they can’t abort babies, then you’d better be ready to establish orphanages, pay for healthcare, . . . . Continue Reading »
I ran across a bizarre story today. The poor fellow wanted to change the channel on the TV, and his wife and children attacked him, evidently banging his head against the wall. End result: death. Yes, strange, but what’s stranger is the reason the family reacted so violently. Evidently . . . . Continue Reading »
Readers who enjoyed Matthew Milliner’s The Neglected Fireplace: Protestantism in the Arts , which we posted yesterday, may want to check the discussion (in which the author participated). You may also want to check out the weblog of the editor of the book reviewed: David Taylor’s Diary . . . . Continue Reading »
On Secondhand Smoke, Wesley Smith ponders the new practice of Creating Sick Pigs to Help Make Humans Well , and decides, “without joy or relish,” that it is necessary because “it is either risk mice—or as in this case, pigs—or endanger humans. So which matters . . . . Continue Reading »
As a Martin Luther King liberal—for which I am now deemed conservative (which tells you what has happened to modern liberalism)—I am always astounded when bioethics radicals claim the mantle of equality and compassion in their work. Their beliefs promote just the . . . . Continue Reading »
Forget the oil spewing out of the bottom of the Gulf, we should be worried about the type of oil that spews out of the bottom of cows. Spilled milk, says the EPA and environmentalists, is an environmental hazard : Having watched the oil gushing in the Gulf of Mexico, dairy farmer Frank Konkel has a . . . . Continue Reading »
In The Rise and Fall of Champagne Malthusians , Spiked’s editor Brendan O’Neill describes a modern “Malthusian Ball” he bravely attended, given his views: It was in the luxurious crypt of St Pancras Church in Euston [London] . . . . [W]e were invited to drink ‘luxury . . . . Continue Reading »
I greatly admire Christopher Hitchens as a writer of superior talent and vigor, even as I shake my head in wonder at his anti-Mother Theresa obsession. I have not met Hitchens—although I have been entertained by stories told about him by mutual acquaintances. And while I have read many of his . . . . Continue Reading »
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