So much for caring exclusively about alleviating the suffering of ill and disabled people. Geron’s head has admitted playing politics with the timing of its request to conduct the world’s first human embryonic stem cell trials on its ESC-based product to be tried on people with acute . . . . Continue Reading »
Expanding on Jody’s thought , there are four issues that are raised by Prof. Wisse’s comments: Prof. Wisse surely has a case that Yiddish deserves academic study, but whether the most important expressions of Jewish writers appeared in Yiddish rather than German, or for that matter Hebrew, is . . . . Continue Reading »
One loves the work of Ruth Wisse and honors her for her long labors in trying to maintain scholarly seriousness in an American academy that, during her lifetime, seemed in many ways to have turned against itself. In a new essay on the decline of the language, however, she makes the case for the . . . . Continue Reading »
What word best describes NYT columnist Thomas Friedman: Fatuous? Yea, that works.In the face of the collapse of credibility for the global warming crisis hysteria—not the same thing as whether we are in a warming trend or whether humans have some impact on climate—Friedman assumes that . . . . Continue Reading »
For the record, one of the reasons I’m a fanboy of apologetics is that I am a former atheist and former Roman Catholic – and, of course, I like a good argument. I like it when ideas clash and people have to engage in something other than a passive way to get to the resolution – . . . . Continue Reading »
Since it’s the first day of Lent I thought it would be appropriate to highlight this stirring poem by Marjorie Maddox from the February 1996 issue of First Things . Ash Wednesda y Marjorie Maddox Fingernails scrubbed clean as latrines in the army, this symbol of a man dirties his thumb with . . . . Continue Reading »
At Wal-Mart’s 2005 annual meeting, Lee Scott, the company’s CEO, announced that since the they wanted to attract customers with lots of discretionary income they would be including more items like organic foods. If you have a difficult time with the concept of Wal-Mart customers having . . . . Continue Reading »
After reading Wesley’s post about the Penn biologist that that human free will is fiction, my first thought was, “Maybe Dr. Cashmore is a zombie.” It’s not as bizarre an assumption as you might think (actually it is as bizarre, just not in the way you imagine). The zombies . . . . Continue Reading »
The West and East count Lent differently. Lent for the West begins today, with Ash Wednesday. Lent is counted 40 days to Easter and Sunday’s during that period are not part of Lent. For the East, Lent began Monday, Sundays are counted and Lent ends on Friday before Lazarus Saturday (followed . . . . Continue Reading »
See today’s Spengler column in Asia Times Online. Some extracts:The fact that Ha’aretz, Israel’s left-leaning daily, found it necessary on February 17 to warn the Benjamin Netanyahu government not to attack Iran [1] strongly suggests that the option is on the table.It seems clear . . . . Continue Reading »
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