As many of you know, for years I have extended Christmas and Hanukkah greetings to my readers. This year I’ve decided to send everyone on my list a Christmas present…. No, it’s not a subscription to the “jelly of the month club” although the gift I have in mind is indeed a “gift that keeps on giving all year long.”
To conclude this series on COVID vaccination, I’d like to leave my readers with just two photos. The first is of Paul Alexander, now age 75, who contracted polio, a viral infection, in 1952 at the age of 6, and who has spent 69 years in an iron lung. Polio left him completely quadriplegic and unable, even, to BREATHE. The
It is sometimes said that the study of ethics is “philosophy’s illegitimate child.” I think the gist of that saying is to question whether the subject belongs properly to the discipline of philosophy or whether, ultimately, it is the true province of theology, i.e. religion. My own position is that although ethics is often associated with religion, it does not