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And your point is? A divorced couple in Virginia is arguing over custody of frozen embryos. Judge Uses a Slavery Law to Rule Frozen Embryos Are Property Frozen human embryos can legally be considered property, or “chattel,” a Virginia judge has ruled, basing his decision in part on a 19th century law governing the treatment of slaves. The preliminary opinion by Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Richard Gardiner – delivered in a long-running dispute between a divorced husband and wife – is being criticized by some for wrongly and unnecessarily delving into a time in Virginia history when it was legally permissible to own human beings. “It’s repulsive and it’s morally repugnant,” said Susan Crockin, a lawyer and scholar at Georgetown University’s Kennedy Institute of Ethics and an expert in reproductive technology law. And her point is? This is your America on Trumpism, and oh so great again. “I would like to think that the bench and the bar would be seeking more modern precedent,” said Solomon Ashby, president of the Old Dominion Bar Association. The group is primarily African American attorneys.
Along with Eric Tymoigne, I will be on the “pro-” side of a “pro-/con-” Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) panel at the online part of the annual Canadian Economic Association (CEA) conference (on May 30, the live conference is in early June in my old hometown of Winnipeg). As a non-academic non-economist, if I were smart, I would keep my head down and offer fairly cautious remarks from the perspective of an educated outsider (with obvious biases). Whether that happens when I start opening my mouth remains to be seen (“No plan survives contact with the enemy”).Bond Economics
Yet More Rambling About My Upcoming MMT Presentation
Brian Romanchuk
Karam Bales looks at the senior British Conservatives appearing at the National Conservatism Conference with its international right wing network, from Peter Thiel to Viktor Orbán
A profile of body dysmorphic disorder.
Here, as promised, is a podcast we made at the Center for Ethics and Education based on interviews we did with Sandy Baum and Michael McPherson, authors of the excellent book Can College Level The Playing Field, which is an indispensable read if you want to understand the relationship between inequality and higher education, and […]
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Indian Express reports from Iran’s PressTV that the country has discovered a deposit of 8.5 million tons of lithium in the Qahavand Plain of western Hamedan province. There are only 89 million tons of lithium in the world in known deposits so far, with the […]
The post Iran Discovered To Have 10% of World’s Lithium Deposits, in Good News for China’s EV Industry appeared first on scheerpost.com.
Doctor Who: Redacted is getting a second season, but the LGBTQ women-focused show has replaced the LGBTQ woman who created & produced it.
EDITED BY PETER ORNER AND LAURA LAMPTON SCOTT
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Jean conducts an interview for Lavil.
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Jean Marseille recorded these dispatches on his phone while surviving on the streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, from October through December 2022. As the chaos that followed the assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse in July 2021 devolved into further lawlessness, Jean witnessed firsthand a city in free fall.
What people “hate even more is to be patronized” Andrew L Seidel (“The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American“) notes that the framers of the U.S. Constitution were for the most part not religious men. At least, not in the evangelicals’ sense. Where they referenced morality and religion as necessary to an orderly society, the two were separate things. For men such as themselves, morality was the product of their elite educations and deep inquiry. For the masses, religion was a pale substitute and ripe for abuse and exploitation by the unscrupulous.* To guard against the latter, the framers revered almost as secular saints were elitists in a groundbreaking way by wisely separating church and state. Thus, they wrote “no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States” into the U.S. Constitution even before the First Amendment was added. On that note, Tom Nichols in his The Atlantic newsletter addresses the very different elitism of Fox personalities.
Four of the AWOL Trump supporters remain at large.
The post Two More Jan. 6 Capitol Rioters Have Fled Charges, Bringing Total to Six appeared first on The Intercept.
Tunisia's populism and racially-charged purges offers chilling context for the UK's migration clampdown, writes Simon Speakman Cordall
Below, please find the definitive right-of-way regulations for New York City’s bike lanes. Any lower-ranked item must yield to any higher-ranked item.
1. Marked NYPD vehicles
2. Unmarked NYPD vehicles
3. Vehicles with a Thin Blue Line flag bumper sticker
4. A dumpster with the Punisher logo on it
5. Film crews for Blue Bloods
6. Vehicles whose owner’s cousin used to work for the city (any city is fine)
7. Amazon delivery trucks
8. Pedestrians walking against traffic
9. Any double-parked motorized vehicle
10. Regular film crews
11. Any motorized vehicle whose driver “just needs to check something”
12. Tourists waiting to cross the street who might not realize they are standing in the bike lane
13. Abandoned vehicles
14. Pizza Rat
15. Revelers and merrymakers
16. Bearded men screaming, “The End is near!”
17. Currently on-fire vehicles
18. Calzone Mouse
19. Street preachers
America's youth: Jaded with education?
In a democracy one might, naively, imagine that political deliberation would involve the presentation of the arguments that people think bear on the question at hand. That is, if someone is in favour of a policy they would present the arguments that they believe support it and if someone is against it they they would […]
By Austin Sarat / The Conversation In January 2023 two Democratic representatives, Judith Garcia and Carlos Gonzalez, proposed a bill that would offer prisoners in Massachusetts a new way to win reduction in their sentences: by donating their bone marrow or vital organs. The bill stated that the commissioner of the Department of Corrections should establish both […]
The post Prisoners Donating Organs to Get Time Off Raises Thorny Ethical Questions appeared first on scheerpost.com.
"We will not allow any foreign government to intervene in our territory, much less with armed forces," AMLO told US neocons.
Silicon Valley Bank: ultimately a Fed victim?
"Though we are living in a moment of increased confrontation and militarization, one fundamental truth remains unchanged: The only way to eliminate nuclear risk is to eliminate nuclear weapons."
The post UN Disarmament Official Lays Out Path to Reverse ‘Dangerous’ Nuclear Trends appeared first on scheerpost.com.
Former Ambassador Robert Ford urges Congress to pull U.S. troops out of Syria.
The post Ending the Hidden Occupation appeared first on The Intercept.
Public employees’ retirement savings have funded the private equity takeovers of companies that used child labor in dangerous factories.
- by Claire Isabel Webb