Month: June 2005

…albeit minor. The AMA is taking on pharmacists’ “moral objections” to filling doctors’ scripts: The American Medical Association has decided to use its clout to ensure pharmacists’ moral...

From “Sex researchers convene in S.F. to study ‘moral panics’,” in the San Jose Mercury (sub. free): Saskia Wieringa, the international association’s president, studies sexual politics in Indonesia...

In Ordinary Men, Christopher Browning wrote of everyday German citizens, members of a police unit in Berlin, who were sent to Poland and there, practiced the messy slaughter of whole villages of Jewish children, women, and men....

I don’t think there’s any doubt that liberal positions on religion and legal interpretation focus on the substance of the thing, rather than taking a literal view. But what about politically contentious issues?...

Do you believe Bush conspired the Iraq War? Yes he did and we now have more proof with the Downing Street memos. Do you believe people can be brainwashed? This absolutely can and does happen in a myriad of ways. Just look at the...