A famous global warming scientist issued an alarming study today finding that too much sex is a major cause of global warming. “All that heavy breathing releases tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere,” Dr, Raymond Sunburn, the head of the Aspen/Davos Collective’s think tank, . . . . Continue Reading »
As a young man I wandered for a while in the fever-swamps of paranoid politics, where conspiracy theories flourished like fungus. The current issue of The Atlantic almost (but not quite) made me nostalgic for the bad old days, for prominently featured is a lurid tale of a . . . . Continue Reading »
It is an intentional tactic on the part of some who push for the instrumental use of nascent human life to make the sophistical argument that human embryos are not really organisms until they implant in a uterus. Ironically, these advocates make this bogus claim in the name of boosting science. But . . . . Continue Reading »
Coincidentally, our launch date here was the 150th anniversary of Tocqueville’s death. He passed on April 16, 1859, in Cannes. 150 years and 3 days later, J.G. Ballard, author of creepazoid milennial dystopia Super-Cannes (2000) , died. The first line from Super-Cannes reads as follows: The . . . . Continue Reading »
I must admit that I, like Michael , enjoyed seeing Susan Boyle win over the audience and the judges last week. I’m a sucker for this kind of thing, and I just think she has a wonderful voice. But it’s when a story receives such universal and unrestrained praise that another side of me . . . . Continue Reading »
Thru Andrew, the latest attempt to supply the Twitter phenomenon (and Twitter, along the way) with meaning: As the physical world takes on more of the characteristics of a simulation, we seek reality in the simulated world. At least there we can be confident that the simulation is real. At least . . . . Continue Reading »
Gabriel Reynolds, assistant professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame, writes us: First Things might have some interest in the international conference on the Qur’an that is opening tonight at Notre Dame. Among others both Nasr Hamid Ab? Zayd and Abdolkarim Sorroush will be . . . . Continue Reading »
Considering the discussions we have had here as to what constitutes a human embryo, I thought it worth revisiting an old Nature editorial that decries the sophistic attempt within bioethics and the life sciences to pretend that an embryo before implantation in a uterus isn’t really an embryo. . . . . Continue Reading »
And according to Wikipedia , at least, Susan Boyle is an active volunteer at Our Lady of Lourdes, Blackburn. . . . . Continue Reading »
Last month, Tim Kaine the Governor of Virginia, signed into law a bill that prohibits the state from funding embryonic stem cell research . From the story : Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, has signed a bill into law banning the use of some state funds for . . . . Continue Reading »
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