Science fiction novelist John Scalzi lists some of the worst designs in the Star Wars universe : Lightsabers Yes, I know, I want one too. But I tell you what: I want one with a hand guard. Otherwise every lightsaber battle would consist of sabers clashing and then their owners sliding as quickly as . . . . Continue Reading »
Tom Keene is doing a radio/television simulcast tomorrow with a number of contributors to his Bloomberg Book of Master Market Economists. I will do the 7 a.m. . . . . Continue Reading »
As the national convention of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America voted yesterday in Minneapolis to accept a social statement on human sexuality, tornado-like winds shook the downtown and ripped up the steeple at the ELCA’s Central Lutheran Church next door to the convention center. No . . . . Continue Reading »
The cultural revolution of the Sixties was brewing in the Fifties. Bourgeois hypocrisy was no longer sincere. Discrete winks were on their way to head shaking nods. . . . . Continue Reading »
For all of the talk about ESCR and therapeutic cloning, in just two short years, induced pluripotent stem cells are already achieving what remains only a theoretical possibility in ethically problematic approaches: Tailor made, disease specific, stem cell lines have been created which are being used . . . . Continue Reading »
On page four of this morning’s Washington Post (Politics & The Nation Section) we find “Dean Challenges Obama to Deliver Reform: ‘Public Option Non-Negotiable Democrat Says “: “The worst thing that could happen is to pass a bill without a public option,” he told . . . . Continue Reading »
President Obama gave humankind a huge promotion the other day, claiming a partnership with God. Hubristic? Yes, and clueless about matters theological. More over at Secondhand Smoke . . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter Singer is the most popular bioethicist around for the “in crowd” of the MSM. The New York Times loves him, often offering him its coveted pages within which to engage in punditry, for example in support of medically mutilating a profound disabled girl so she . . . . Continue Reading »
President Obama said something yesterday that, given the brouhaha over death panels and health care rationing, might not have been prudent. From the story:A reader points out that President Obama’s call with the rabbis today — as recorded in Rabbi Jack Moline’s and other . . . . Continue Reading »
Greg Graffin, the legendary punk rocker turned evolutionary biologist, concluded in his doctoral dissertation, “Monism, Atheism, and the Naturalist World-View: Perspectives from Evolutionary Biology,” that there’s “no conflict between evolutionary theory and religion on the one . . . . Continue Reading »
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