Why do some life scientists insist on trying to reduce what we are as human beings to the lowest common biological denominator? Here I was minding my own business, reading the New York Times Book Review to raise my blood pressure, and there it is again: Humans are just pond . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m less sure than Carl that the revelation of seemingly false claims of Native American heritage by both Warren and her employer and Warren’s plagiarizing of “traditional” Cherokee recipes from the New York Times are fatal to her candidacy. The Warren phony Native . . . . Continue Reading »
The other day, John Hinderaker, on the Powerline blog , wrote in “George Zimmerman, Not Guilty” about the mounting evidence apparently exonerating Mr. Zimmerman. I wrote a comment that generated a positive response. I am still trying to figure out what Postmodernism is . . . . Continue Reading »
An Indian surrogate mother has died as a consequence of renting her uterus to a Western woman. From the Daily News and Analysis story:Renting out her womb to a US couple cost Amraiwadi resident Premila Vaghela, 36, her life. Trying to give a child to the couple, she died on Monday . . . . Continue Reading »
In a victory (of sorts) for human rights, and a good piece of diplomacy by the Obama Administration, the persecuted Chinese human rights activist, Chen Gugangchen, has been freed from the national gulag that is the People’s Republic of China. He’s coming to “study” in . . . . Continue Reading »
Let’s start off soberly, even on a note of august regret. One of the things Thomas Jefferson and John Adams agreed upon was that the primary point of republican popular suffrage was to elect a natural aristocracy . The same hope and intention gets expressed, albeit in a more guardedly . . . . Continue Reading »
I live in Chardon, Ohio. On February 27, a local boy shot seven other kids, killing three and disabling one. You might all know about it because the news media descended on our town in a swarm and projected us everywhere. The whole community was affected, first by the shooting of . . . . Continue Reading »
WARNING: Spoilers below, but this movie is like candy, so it doesn’t spoil easily. Damsels in Distress is a light and confectionary film that wants to be loved more than it wants to be thought about. That’s a shame, because the sort of person who is committed to Whit Stillman as a . . . . Continue Reading »
Early voting started a couple of days ago in Texas, and it sure makes it easy to vote for a primary election dated for May 29. Given that I will be in Rome visiting relatives on that date, it is nice to know that I can still vote early in Texas. Should I say, “Only in America?” Not to be . . . . Continue Reading »
Never in my life have I seen such widespread formal resistance by the states to a federal law than we have witnessed with Obamacare. Even during the Civil Rights struggles, there were far fewer states in revolt than we see now. And polls continue to show majorities of the people wanting . . . . Continue Reading »
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