This op-ed in today's NY Times is much longer than most NYT op-eds. Yet its focus has little to do with the "pressing issues of the day," the stuff of NYT most op-eds. Rather, it is about Albert Einstein's four … [Read more...]
RIP Charlie Shannon
I was greatly saddened to see in today's Globe that state senator Charles E. Shannon, Jr. (D-Winchester) has passed away, apparently due to complications arising from his ongoing treatment for cancer.Shannon was a Lexington police officer … [Read more...]
Romney allies himself with the most extreme elements of the Republican party
The Boston Globe ran an article today misleadingly entitled "Romney finds middle ground on stem cells." (Romney, you will recall, opposes therapeutic cloning or somatic cell nuclear transfer, but supports research on … [Read more...]
Three disappointing op-eds on stem cell research
In an apparent effort to advance the stem cell research debate, the Globe today published a "Spotlight on Stem Cells" consisting of three op-eds by respected personalities. But they all stink, for different reasons.Harvard … [Read more...]
Pat Buchanan’s face splattered with whitish gooey substance
Relax - it's just salad dressing. Get your mind out of the gutter.By the way, this is not an April Fool's joke - this really happened. … [Read more...]
Rabbi Kleinbaum on the Jerusalem WorldPride event
In response to our recent post on the upcoming gay pride event in Jerusalem, Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum (who is quoted in the NY Times article discussing the event) sent us this letter:Regarding "Hate: an equal opportunity … [Read more...]
Hate: an equal opportunity affliction
It's nice to know that irrational hatred of gay people isn't confined to Christian extremists in the good old U. S. of A. A ten day gay pride festival is being planned for the city of Jerusalem in August. And the NYT reports:Now … [Read more...]
RIP Terri Schiavo
She died this morning. … [Read more...]
MA stem cell update
The state legislature's Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies released its proposed stem cell research bill yesterday. The revised bill is more detailed that the original proposal to which we linked in this … [Read more...]
Or, “those who can’t do, teach”
Orin Kerr, a law prof at George Washington University and one of the Volokh conspirators, has pointed to an interesting essay by Amy Cohen (scroll down), a professor at Western New England College School of Law (located in Springfield, … [Read more...]
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