As any blogger can tell you, it’s good to be on hiatus — but it’s better to be back. Especially when being back means settling into new digs with the same crew. (You can, however, expect some new faces — or ‘voices’, in the parlance of our times.) Thanks to Jody . . . . Continue Reading »
So I’m sitting at the traffic light in my Ford Econoline 12-passenger van, with my four children in the back, plus several extras who needed a ride to choir, and we’re all singing along to “Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road” on the CD player, which I mention merely to . . . . Continue Reading »
I put much time and effort into reporting stories here at SHS about stem cell research, human cloning, and other matters of biotechnology. But because SHS covers broad areas of concern and interest—and to keep our ponderings varied and lively—of necessity I may miss important stories in . . . . Continue Reading »
For the award granted to the commentator constructing the greatest number of strawmen in the smallest amount of space, I hereby nominate E.J. Dionne and his op-ed ” The Obama Doctrine ” in this morning’s Washington Post . Dionne is so anxious to prove that President . . . . Continue Reading »
From yesterday’s installation mass of New York’s Archbishop Timothy Dolan: My brother priests: you are the apple of my eye! You mean everything to me. Without you, I can do nothing. In you I still see St. Isaac Joques, Venerable Felix Varela, Issac Hecker, Fighting Father Duffy, Fulton . . . . Continue Reading »
If this doesn’t give you something to talk about at the water cooler today, I don’t know what will: A Kenyan man bit a python which wrapped him in its coils and dragged him up a tree during a fierce three-hour struggle, police have told the BBC. The serpent seized farm worker Ben . . . . Continue Reading »
Our world is so upside-down. A nurse secretly filmed terrible neglect of elderly UK hospital patients—and she is sanctioned for misconduct! From the story: An undercover nurse who carried out secret filming to reveal the neglect of elderly patients on a hospital ward was found guilty of . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday, I wrote about a diabetes human trial using adult stem cells in which some of the patients were able to go off insulin. I predicted at the time that it wouldn’t make big time headlines—as would happen if the exact same achievement happened with human patients using embryonic . . . . Continue Reading »
Years ago a friend of mine took her little daughter to a Chinese restaurant and asked how she liked the fortune cookie at the end of the meal. “Well . . . ,” her daughter said, “it doesn’t taste like much. And the paper inside it is kind of strange, too.” Growing up in . . . . Continue Reading »
On March 3, 2009, Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-CA) introduced legislation (H.R. 1283) to repeal the 1993 law regarding homosexuals in the military (Section 654, Title 10, U.S.C.), often labeled “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Anticipating an attempt to repeal this law, several retired . . . . Continue Reading »
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