Light is Right Joe Campbell Flyers are masochists. There’s something about being stranded in crowded airports waiting to board overbooked planes that excites them. There’s something about being scanned and probed and having their luggage exposed that thrills them. There’s something about being herded into a fuselage and squeezed into one-size-fits-all seats that challenges them. Flyers enjoy cruising at thirty [...]
You might be able to imagine the debauchery of the question when the advice columnist non-judgmentally warns "People having a fling can rarely be counted on to behave politely if they last more than a weekend." That's from Miss Lonelyhearts, who replies to a person who isn't interested in balancing his co-worker with benefits and the girlfriend who is returning home for [...]
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The cover of a recent New York magazine promised so much – far more than I knew it would deliver, but I couldn’t resist. “There are over a million terminated pregnancies in American every year,” it read, under the headline “My Abortion,” “yet few women will ever talk about their experience.” Living in a country where actually talking about abortion is discouraged [...]
Today, apparently, is a day to canonize Nelson Mandela. Even those on the Right are joining in the tributes, but my view is more ambiguous. Mandela should be congratulated for fostering a relatively peaceful transition from apartheid to whatever South Africa has become. It is a little much to say that South Africa is a functioning democracy because it is effectively a [...]
Interim columnist Rory Leishman looks at the meaning of the Rasouli decision and its impact on doctors, patients, and Hassan Rasouli.
Hassan Rasouli In a ruling of vital national significance, the Supreme Court of Canada has held in the Rasouli case that the Ontario Health Care Consent Act (HCCA) prohibits a physician from unilaterally terminating life-support for a patient who is incapable of consenting to medical treatment. While this case dealt specifically with Ontario, physicians in other provinces should beware that the Court [...]
How Duck Dynasty became a television and cultural sensation After years of celebrating little-watched cable television shows like The Sopranos (about the mafia and laced with profanity) and Breaking Bad (about a drug dealer and laced with profanity), the North American entertainment media took notice of the ratings success of Duck Dynasty, which attracts millions more viewers. In the February 2013 season [...]
Chesterton said that "Journalism largely consists in saying Lord Jones is dead to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive." In that tradition we report that Alison Davis has passed away. If you didn't know that Alison Davis was alive, you should have. She was the founder of the disability rights group, No Less Human, and just two weeks ago she wrote a letter [...]
Guest blogging at JillStanek.com, Dr. Joel Brind notes: “China is on the cusp of a breast cancer epidemic,” acknowledged a prestigious group of American epidemiologists in 2008 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Studiously avoiding the “A-word” the JNCI group blamed the emerging epidemic on “shifting reproductive trends” among “risk factors associated with economic development [that] are largely unavoidable.” That’s [...]