Yesterday, California’s Supreme Court issued a decision that ordered a fertility clinic to make its artificial insemination services equally available to a lesbian as it did to a straight woman. This means that the lesbian will now be able to… Continue Reading
“Why won’t America and Nato help us? If they won’t help us now, why did we help them in Iraq?” A good question. One with so many good answers that none of them feel entirely satisfactory.
Freakonomics asks, why don’t more companies hire assassins to kill their competitors’ CEOs? It’s a delicious question, impetuous and brilliantly amoral. After all, when the CEO of a company dies, the stock tends to decline in value rapidly. Thinking about… Continue Reading
Based on a comment I made at Right Wing Nut House earlier this morning: It should not be news to anyone that the People’s Republic of China is a repressive, brutal regime which is the largest and most dangerous relic… Continue Reading
It occurs to me that my earlier thoughts about opt-out organ harvesting laws may be, in a significant way, fundamentally incompatible with my thoughts in the same post condemning laws forbidding the sale of one’s own organs. This disturbs me… Continue Reading
Plenty of spoilers here, in case you’ve not seen The Dark Knight. But on the other hand, if you read either entertainment or political columns on blogs, you’ve probably seen this stuff already. Here’s my take on it. Somehow, an… Continue Reading
This lovely valley, dedicated to agricultural use, is Armageddon. It’s a real place, sometimes called Megeddio or Megeddo, in modern Israel. Many prophets, purportedly including Jesus, have predicted that this is where the final battle between God and Satan will… Continue Reading
I’m having a very interesting discussion with the Atheist Ethicist about PZ Myers’ call for stolen communion wafers. Rather than re-argue the issues here, I will just commend you to follow the link. The author of the Atheist Ethicist blog… Continue Reading
Christians aren’t perfect, and they don’t pretend to be. Rarely, though, do you get to see Christians acknowledging that their evangelism is similarly imperfect and sometimes even hurtful to others. That’s what makes this site extraordinary. No one who posts… Continue Reading
The Wife pointed out that my Marriage Hypothetical post was confusing. A fair criticism — I took a background that will look like a law school exam and used it to pose normative questions. Of course, I was trying to… Continue Reading