Outside The Asylum

How some people on both sides of the climate change debate are misusing weather to prove climate. The Age Of Disinformation — Medium : 'via Blog this'

The answer to this question is YES.  Which is why responsible gun store owners do background checks.

New evidence suggests that the masculinity crisis that Cardinal Burke was talking about is indeed real- and far more widespread than just the church.

Scott Adams of Dilbert Fame has been contemplating Euthanasia and to his eternal credit, he decided to debate Jimmy Akins from Catholic Answers on the subject.   The resulting combox conversation is extremely long and interesting, and it gave me the following idea of how to reduce many of the normal Catholic objections to Euthanasia, for those who dissent on Church Teaching from said subject (I do not dissent from Church Teaching, but this proposal addresses many, if not most, of my concerns on the subject): A proposal for a new monastic order, researching end of life care, pain management, and Euthanasia. The typical monastery would be a micromonastery, consisting of three small bedrooms, a living area, a kitchen, a dining area.  Each bedroom would have a separate toilet and bathing area. Members chosen for a given micromonastery should be all of the same faith, should dissent from Church Teaching on Euthanasia, and should be all of the same gender (including the odd 58 ...

Don’t Kill People with Disabilities. Especially Family. @BADDtweets : Yep.  Don't treat people with disabilities as less than human.  Even if they haven't been born yet.