One of the myths about the assisted suicide movement is that it “only” wants “terminally ill people for whom nothing else can be done to alleviate suffering” to have a “right to die with dignity.” That is a false premise, but beside that point, it is a blatant . . . . Continue Reading »
Rocco Palmo has the roundup . . . . . Continue Reading »
What a remarkable woman : With a video camera hidden in her backpack, college student Lila Rose has become a rising star in the U.S. anti-abortion movement for her clandestine tactics in taking on Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest provider of surgical abortions. Rose stages her own . . . . Continue Reading »
Nothing says memento mori like a human skull. Saint Jerome never appears without one, and neither should you.Now you, too, can give the gift of awareness of human frailty and the transience of life for the great bargain price of $12.50, thanks to our friends at American Science and Surplus. This is . . . . Continue Reading »
So Scientology is on trial again—this time in France, and this time for fraud. It seems that a woman who took a free “personality test” was then sold a bill of goods in the form of vitamins, books, and dubious “cures” for psychological problems—to the tune of . . . . Continue Reading »
What is the truth value of mourning? That is, what does mourning tell us about the truth? Mourning is one of the most powerful and universal emotions. It is such a basic, pre-reflective, and pervasive response to the loss of a loved one that it appears to be part of the hard wiring of human . . . . Continue Reading »
Few doctors take the Hippocratic Oath anymore. But many still believe in its maxims, including not to perform abortions, assist in suicides, or otherwise harm patients or other human life.Conscience clauses are controversial. President Obama said at Notre Dame that he believes in them—but his . . . . Continue Reading »
President Obama said at Notre Dame that he supports conscience clauses for doctors who don’t want to perform abortions, but he is seeking to revoke the existing Bush conscience clause. How can we protect doctors who believe in the Hippocratic Oath from being driven out of medicine when they . . . . Continue Reading »
PoMoCon, just across the toolbar, picked up on David Brooks’ paean to lack of imagination in the corporate world on May 21, aptly noting that it was a sequel to his earlier claim that anyone could be Mozart by practicing enough. I had excoriated Brooks for bait-and-switch, that is, claiming . . . . Continue Reading »
I was looking for a crucifix to hang on the wall above my desk. It never occurred to me that this would be a difficult thing to find.Now, honestly. I can’t decide what I think is stranger: the head of Christ growing out of the bark like some kind of miracle knothole apparation; the Crucifixion . . . . Continue Reading »
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