When I first moved to San Francisco, I volunteered with Project Open Hand to deliver dinners to terminal AIDS patients. It was—and is—a wonderful organization that harnessed the energy of San Francisco’s liberal activist community and mixed it with practical planning to make . . . . Continue Reading »
I know something about THAT, at least. . . . . Continue Reading »
The Songbook inevitably has to analyze modernity, precisely because it is interested more in what rock reveals about our overall sociological and spiritual situation than it is in rock itself. So what follows are two organizing posts concerning this. Here, I’ll quickly lay out my . . . . Continue Reading »
Remember Ron Reagan’s nonsense speech about embryonic stem cell research (actually human cloning research) at the 2004 Democratic Convention? Media swooned at the garbage and the hype (e.g., Parkinson’s cures around 2014, “self repair kits” stored in hospitals). . . . . Continue Reading »
First off, I want to apologize for being missing in action. All my time has been sucked up by THE PUBLIC POLICY DIMENISON OF BEING STUCK WITH VIRTUE CONFERENCE, which was a huge success. More on that soon. The dominant tendency of Republicans is now called, in several places, ABR. The likely voters . . . . Continue Reading »
Shiva Naipaul is not as well known as his Nobel-laureate brother, but a devoted minority considers him the better writer, and I do not think there can be much question that he is the only Naipaul with a sense of humor visible to the human eye. He is also the more tragic of the two. Shiva died of a . . . . Continue Reading »
So with Occupy Wall Street, and Penn State football child molestation allegations, and the dearth of credible Republican candidates to run against a President who seems to have no care other than winning the next election, and Kim Kardashian apparently marrying whomever for millions of . . . . Continue Reading »
or the soft bigotry of low expectations, 1. One of the themes of this Republican presidential race is the tension between electability/competence on one hand and conservative authenticity on the other. Romney has been winning the competence/electability sweepstakes all year (minus a . . . . Continue Reading »
This pro doctor-prescribed death meme is so old and tired: Pain control can lead to a sooner death, hence it is no different than assisted suicide. And now, in the Canadian attempt to impose assisted suicide by judicial fiat, a pro assisted suicide lawyer cross examined a palliative care . . . . Continue Reading »
The horrifying news out of Penn State has many of us talking about ethics lately, especially those of us who work in academe as I do. One of the terms I’ve heard mentioned the most is “loyalty,” as many commentators have observed that a misplaced sense of loyalty in the . . . . Continue Reading »
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