1. I like the Iranian reformers more than I like the mass politics of solidarity by symbolism. 2. Imitating the right things for a people to say or do does not make those things the right ones for a President to do. 3. If Iran really has imported 5,000 Hezbollah enforcers, a more robust official US . . . . Continue Reading »
The immortality project took a body blow today as the AMA came out in opposition to the use of anti-aging hormones. From the story:The American Medical Association says there’s no scientific proof to back up the claims of anti-aging hormones. At their annual meeting in Chicago on Monday, AMA . . . . Continue Reading »
Cutting back on greenhouse gases isn’t enough anymore to stop global warming, says Jamais Cascio in the Wall Street Journal . He believes the only solution is to “think about cooling the planet” by using geoengineering. [W]hat geoengineering can do is slow the increase in . . . . Continue Reading »
A “wrongful birth” lawsuit has been filed in Oregon in which the child’s parents are suing because a test failed to reveal that their baby has Down, which had they known, would have resulted in abortion. As I state in my post about this at Secondhand Smoke : This is not the . . . . Continue Reading »
An Oregon couple is suing because a test missed that the child had Down syndrome, which had they known, would have resulted in their child’s abortion. From the story:In the months before their daughter was born in 2007, Deborah and Ariel Levy worried the baby might have Down syndrome. . . . . Continue Reading »
Tort law is a market based corrective for a market-based system, which is why I am not surprised that President Obama is sending signals that he is willing to accept tort reform as part of a health care reform package. From the story:In closed-door talks, Mr. Obama has been making the case that . . . . Continue Reading »
This is a part of my study of Kass that I’m posting today instead of saying more about Rousseau . . . The thought of Enlightenment thinkers such as Bacon, Descartes and Condorcet was that only indefinite longevity could transform the world in a genuinely humane way. With it, the progress of . . . . Continue Reading »
Our friend Annie, age thirteen, keeps bees. This is a fairly new project; just after Easter, having spent the school year engaged in bee research, she brought home her colony, buzzing furiously in a box on her lap, and established them in a little green glade in the woods around her house. Every day . . . . Continue Reading »
The mystery about the Iranian elections, writes my old friend Daniel Pipes, is why the religious authorities who run the country decided to declare a massive victory for the crude and brutal Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, rather than advance the slick and deceptive Hossein Moussavi. One could read this as a . . . . Continue Reading »
The former Liberian warlord-dictator Charles Taylor famously has a “have-my-cake-and-eat-it-too” mentality (he once used the campaign slogan , “He killed my Ma, he killed my Pa, but I will vote for him.”). His latest life-changing decision shows that he really hates to . . . . Continue Reading »
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