On June 8th I was listening to an NPR program called Science Friday. First let me say that this is one of my favorite programs. I LIKE these guys and what they do.
This is why I wanted to scream just a bit on this particular Friday. The subject was global warming in general and […]
This one is in part a response to Susan’s post Now Talk, but I can’t blame it all on her. In any event, here’s the connection.
I read the excerpt from Gore’s book that was printed in time magazine, and was impressed. OK, I’m a Democrat, and completely under-whelmed by my current choice of Presidential candidates, […]
A US public High School student was recently arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. His crime was a violent, rambling, and poorly written essay completed as part of a creative writing exercise in his English class. It is quite clear from the essay, which is now available several places on the net including here, that […]
My mother is elderly and in poor health. She is like many older folks in that much of her daily life centers on doctors’ offices with occasional side trips to the ER, and periodic hospital admittance. I worry about her, but have assuaged that worry over the years with the sure knowledge that she has […]
In a recent column for the Washington Post entitled Fuzzy Climate Math, George Will raises his concerns about the impact of public indoctrination concerning global warming. This indoctrination is being conducted by what he calls the “media entertainment-environmental complex”. This seems to be phrase of Will’s own creation, intended (I think) to belittle and demonize […]
The title of this post is taken from a speech by Republican Senator Tom Coburn given during debate on the current supplemental spending bills in the House and Senate for funding the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. You have likely heard about these bills due to the fact that both versions contain calls of varying strength […]
Last week a friend sent me this article and asked me what I thought. The basic argument is that even as newborns, adopted baies are traumatized by the separation from their birth mothers and this trauma stays with them for life. A clinical social worker and adoption assessor writes the column. She knows much more […]
If you want to watch the news in Britain, you watch the BBC. The BBC gets a LOT of money from the British government and has a long-standing reputation for high quality impartial reporting of the news of the world. This impartiality is insured in part by the existence of Ofcom, which is accountable […]
The cover story of a recent Time magazine concerns one new version of anti-abortion/right to life advocacy. It focuses on compassion rather than condemnation for pregnant women seeking abortions in the U.S. The process is to set up women’s health clinics that strongly promote a woman carrying her child to term. These centers often […]
Hello all. Before I get into this post, I would like to reiterate Rick’s plea to expand the reach of Bravehumans. If you read my posts you know I’m a Democrat, and I lean at least a bit (maybe a lot) to the left. This describes the majority of the folks I’ve met here on […]
