Category: Ethics, Morality & Religion
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It is always easy to send other people and their children into harm’s way when your own backside is not in the crossfire. We have a two "valiant" armchair warriors in charge of the country – the president and the vice president. The former hid among the Texas National Guards and the latter requested five…
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No, it is not the one on the left. Taking into account a few rare exceptions, I don’t like, watch or follow the game of football. But from time to time I catch the news of some or the other high priced, high profile athlete indulging in foul or criminal behavior. Mostly I shrug. Assault,…
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Question for readers of this blog: Does anybody know if there are any planned boycotts or public demonstrations against sponsors of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing? As you likely know, China continues to support Khartoum and its ongoing genocide against the ‘Africans’ in Darfur, largely through ties to Sudan’s oil. Unfortunately, a lot of people…
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First there was Dianna Abdala. Now there’s Stephen Dunne, in a story which might deserve a spot on the Daily Show, rather than just in the Boston Globe. Stephen Dunne, 30, of Boston, is seeking $9.75 million in the suit against the Massachusetts Board of Bar Examiners and the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. He was…
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We already have the A-bomb and the H-bomb. As part of its program for developing non-lethal weapons, the Pentagon has confirmed that it once had plans for the G-bomb – "G" as in "gay." The proposed Gay Bomb would not kill and incinerate indiscriminately like the other two. Instead of being a weapon of mass…
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The Bush administration has a horrible record of squaring with the American public about the true cost of the Iraq war. Yes, the relevant cost of a war is not measured in dollars but in human lives, lost and mangled. We will never know the true extent of Iraqi lives lost and destroyed but at…
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A post today on Out of the Jungle, a legal information blog, has me thinking. It refers to this AP article in the Boston Globe (and elsewhere) regarding the growing numbers of students arriving at law school after a detour through the sciences. Their obvious target is patent law, the practice of which requires prospective…
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Well, I guess no one else could have said it better than the prodigal pro. Pithy, accurate, unforgiving and no punches pulled. The great thing is that Hitchens wasn’t speaking only about the harm that the now dead Falwell had perpetrated during his lifetime. He indicts the whole living hypocritical brigade that continues in the…
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(Pope Benedict in Sao Paolo, Brazil, May2007) Actually it is the Pontiff’s runaway mouth that needs a brake. Pope Benedict XVI, who succeeded the charismatic and popular Pope John Paul II has made an embarrassing number of faux pas during his short reign. Stiff in his demeanor and lacking the people pleasing skills of John…
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Once again a sordid story is unfolding in our capital involving people in power and their sexual foibles. Fortunately, this one is playing under the radar and has not (and hopefully, will not) assumed the proportions of an Anna Nicole Smith or American Idol size saga. What after all, is new about the powerful seeking extra-constitutional,…
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Links to some recent events – all a bit disturbing, none wholly surprising. Slam Dunk to Infamy: George Tenet, the former CIA chief who was one of Bush-Cheney’s chief enablers in the criminal invasion of Iraq, is attempting to clean up his own guilty legacy and like all other rats, moving to abandon the sinking…
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A little more than a month ago I wrote an article where I examined the question of the possible evolutionary nature of human religiosity. Specifically, my question was addressed to why seemingly rational people trained in the rigorous scientific process would turn to religion, spirituality or superstition. Within this larger academic question, I cited the case…
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In Carhart II, on Wednesday the U.S. Supreme Court for the first time since Roe v. Wade upheld an abortion-restrictive law which contained no exception for the health of the mother. Justice Kennedy’s majority opinion is flatly indefensible; the "analysis" is pathetically dishonest (and maybe also incompetent), and the result is, of course, atrocious. The…
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