Thanks for your critique, Janet. We actually tried a couple of episodes where House (Hugh Laurie) (please put the brackets in the right place) gets it right first time, but they were only 6 minutes long. NBC weren’t happy. Then we tried some where House never gets it right and the patient dies. The audience wasn’t happy.
One could apply your trenchant analysis to other art forms: JS Bach wrote 30 Goldberg variations on the same chord structure; Frida Kahlo painted 50 portraits of herself; Henry Moore, what??
The point is, or was, variations on a theme; if all you see is hospital, medical blah blah, then it wasn’t meant for you.
Nonetheless, I look forward to your first novel!
Is it wrong to starve a child to death just because she has Down syndrome?
That's exactly what happened in 1982 when parents of a newborn with Down syndrome named “Baby Doe” withheld a common surgery to help the baby digest food.
The case made national news and, even though the hospital fought the decision, the courts sided with the parents, who allowed their child to die of dehydration five days later.
In 1984, the “Baby Doe amendment” was added to the federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act in order to prevent hospitals from withholding food, fluids, or medically indicated care to children merely because they are disabled.
But if it is wrong to starve a child to death just because she has Down syndrome, then surely it is just as wrong to dismember a child in the womb because she has the exact same condition.
In fact, there is a term for this kind of discrimination against the disabled: ableism.
Our society has learned that people with disabilities are still people, and so we reasonably accommodate them with things like handicapped parking and braille on signposts.
But aborting someone because he is disabled is, to put it mildly, not very accommodating. And when it is done systematically, it is a form of social oppression against marginalized communities.
Just as we wouldn’t euthanize a child who became disabled through an accident or an illness, we should not kill a child in the womb for the same reason.
This is right. If Nowak HAD said something racist to that Sikh guy, it would change nothing, in moral terms, about what happened. The injustice would be just as great. Anyone who thinks otherwise is asking for a society based on racial hierarchies and preferences.
@AirspeedPrime Am curious about the annotations / for In The Spirit Temple and Ashes of Academy. Often aren't too deep but even minor stuff about thought process behind the direction of Azula and Mai's characters could be interesting.
Very exciting announcement
The Legend of Korra In Concert
Presale on tickets is today and tomorrow (Presale code is: KORRA15), general sale May 29th.
Initial performances are UK and Europe in early 2027, USA dates will be announced soon.
https://t.co/7CKkyyZxmE
Oh we're going to be seeing a lot more of this, I'm sure.
*How DARE you say we hate Jews! All we have done is asked Jews - and only Jews, you understand - to take a loyalty test, and if they fail to pass it we'll exclude them from society. Peace and love!*
Gamers will look at beautiful hand drawn animation and tell you it looks like a flash game because it’s animated at 24 fps instead of 60 (it still runs at 60)
Joe Biden and the Democrats did this. They removed all guard rails and made it incredibly easy to get the abortion pill by mail.
Without doctor oversight. Without doctor approval. They are handing it out like candy and men are using it to abuse women.
And the party that screams “my body, my choice” is silent.
People from that region had numerous centuries to display even the slightest interest in those stories, and didn't. Now everybody wants to be part of the lingering interest that's downstream of the European Egypt mania of the 1800s. The real shame is that in most cases, European curiosity, interest and imagination is the only thing that makes other people give value to these long discarded stories, items, and mythologies.
This ai video that Donald Trump posted is completely disgusting. I get trolling, but putting Stephen Colbert inside of the New York Mets is way too far