Jan in a Pan is the street-smart title of a 1959 black and white B-grade, science fiction/horror film (released in 1962). I happened to watch it a few nights ago, utterly fascinated by the issues it raised. The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (the actual but only marginally more serious title) stars . . . . Continue Reading »
I wasn’t going to run with this because bioethicist Jacob M. Appel seems to be following the same business model to career success as Julian Savulescu and others: stake out the most wild and radical positions conceivable and you are sure to get attention—and perhaps big speaking . . . . Continue Reading »
I wasn’t going to run with this because bioethicist Jacob M. Appel seems to be following the same business model to career success as Julian Savulescu and others: stake out the most wild and radical positions conceivable and you are sure to get attention—and perhaps big speaking . . . . Continue Reading »
In my previous post, “Dueling Petitions at the American Philosophical Association” , I called attention to a controversy in which several Christian colleges and their philosophy faculties are accused of unjustly discriminating against practicing homosexuals in violation of the rules of . . . . Continue Reading »
I have been very unhappy about the lurid headlines in the New York Post and elsewhere about the gravely injured Natasha Richardson being “brain dead.” That is not only insensitive to her devastated family, but the term is thrown around all too loosely.Brain death is a popular term for . . . . Continue Reading »
The CIRM, which doles out $300 million of borrowed money on Californians’ credit card each year, has been a disaster from the start. We have seen mismanagement, conflicts of interest, hundreds of millions paid to buy the most expensive buildings designed by the most costly architects, etc., . . . . Continue Reading »
Oh , the innocence of youth: Cars torched, firefighters attacked, police bombarded and neighbors terrified: It was another fine St. Patrick’s Day in Ireland, where inebriated mobs annually turn districts of Dublin and Belfast into a nightmare. Authorities were counting the cost Wednesday from . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s another dyspeptic observation from the inimitable “Diogenes,” posted under “Onward Christian Facilitators”: We sang “Lift High the Cross” at Mass on Sunday. Unless I’m mistaken, the “hosts of God” who once combined in . . . . Continue Reading »
A chaplain working for a hospice in Boca Raton, Florida has quit her job after the care center banned using the words “God” and “Lord” in public: Chaplains still speak freely of the Almighty in private sessions with patients or families but, the Rev. Mirta Signorelli said: . . . . Continue Reading »
CNN expressed confusion this morning on when Administration officials—specifically, Secretary of the Treasury Geithner and President Obama—knew AIG would be paying out bonuses to its failed executives. Geithner says he didn’t know until Tuesday; the president, not until Thursday. . . . . Continue Reading »
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