Feb 10 2010

FMRI study shows ‘Vegetative’ patients may not necessarily be unconscious

Ed Morrissey has the CNN video and offers commentary on the recent FMRI study of so-called “vegetative” patients that could indeed change all of our perceptions on the victims of tramautic brain damage, as well as offer a ray of hope for the families of those who remain trapped but conscious inside unresponsive bodies.
Ed writes:
The [...]

Nov 16 2009

Flash: Obama in favor of free speech

That applies to China - not here in the U.S.
Barack Obama, our hypocrite-in-Chief, speaking to Chinese students in Shanghai:
“I think that the more freely information flows, the stronger the society becomes, because then citizens of countries around the world can hold their own governments accountable.”
“I’m a big supporter of non-censorship,” Obama said. “I recognize [...]

Oct 9 2009

Marco’s Million-Dollar Mo

TAMPA — OK, Charlie doesn’t have to declare a mayday yet. But
it’s probably time for him to start worrying. Mr. Inevitable is
beginning to look like just another Senate candidate. A candidate
fully capable of blowing a large lead by next August.

Charlie is Florida’s mercurial populist governor, [...]

Oct 6 2009

Explaining Polanskiites

In Dennis Prager’s Townhall column today, he asks the most obvious and urgent question about the Roman Polanski crisis, the same point noted by Movie Badger in a previous Lizardian post:
How is one to explain the film world’s conscience?
He refers not to Polanski himself; as Movie Badger noted, the existence of evil people is not [...]