Gonna Get on this Hobby Horse and Ride

November 10, 2011 By 14 Comments
flu-shot

I finally made time to get a flu shot at a local CVS and so now you all get treated to a public health PSA (but it's got an ethics/duty angle, so it's totally technically within the scope of this blog). I could just make a pitch from self-interest: get a shot so you won't get sick.  After all, even without insurance, the cost of the shot (~$30 at CVS) is affordable for a lot of people, and, once you're actually sick, you're likely to wish you could take the trade.  Plus, for people my age, … [Read more...]

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Bringing a Stat Book to a Culture Fight

October 16, 2011 By 14 Comments
the-pill

Comments are still a little bit in flux here.  Because Disqus was causing problems, it's been stripped off and we're back to plain old wordpress comments until things get sorted out.  On the plus side, this means that all the previously vanished comments are back! Oh, and speaking of comments, today I want to point you to a conversation that's going on over at Marc's Bad Catholic blog here at Patheos.  Marc wrote a post called "10 Reason the Pill Sucks" and, although I disagree with … [Read more...]

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Natural Death Black Boxes

September 26, 2011 By 12 Comments

I warned commenters against turning the Soup Nazi Approach to Sex post into an abortion debate. Any free-ranging discussion of abortion tends to fail; I've only had productive conversations when I spend a lot of time narrowing the focus of a conversation and screening off anything else. I’m not surprised to see the discussion that broke out entering a tailspin, but I think there’s something to be gleaned from the wreckage. I’m certainly not recapping the whole thread, so I picked the … [Read more...]

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