There exists in the great satirists – Swift, Voltaire, and Twain – a profound respect for the human's ultimate weapon against mass stupidity, the human intellect. That stupidity is exemplified in allegiance and obeisance to organized religion, political parties, .. FULL STORY...
As Abe Osheroff’s body slowly began to betray him in his 80s and 90s, one of his favorite lines was, “I have one foot in the grave but the other keeps dancing.” FULL STORY...
Four presidential elections ago Democratic political-carnivore James Carville coined the phrase, "it's the economy, stupid," to denote Papa Bush's failure to properly address the 1992 recession. The senior Bush was the idiot then… but all of us, Americans, may be jointly the idiot now. FULL STORY...
This Easter Sunday, 11-year-old Kara Neumann of Weston, Wisconsin, died of diabetic ketoacidosis, a curable condition. While Kara was bedridden suffering waves of nausea and vomiting and excessive thirst and could not talk, her parents, Dale and Leilani Neumann, knelt in prayer and refused to seek medical treatment. FULL STORY...
The United States (US) is currently using about 9% of its wheat, 25% of its corn and about 15% of its grain in general to produce biofuel. The United Kingdom (UK) has committed to large increases in the use of biofuels over coming decades,.. FULL STORY...
Change… holy change! If only we could be blessed with a light rain from the heavens that would wash away our prejudices, greed and dissipating wastefulness. Cleansed, Americans could then become one whole people instead of the many fractions that now make up this nation of diversity; diversity not just in people but also in rights, hopes and expectations. FULL STORY...
Within days of the fifth anniversary of “Shock and Awe,” I received a solicitation from the Simon Wiesenthal Center to help “Combat Global Hate against the Jewish People.” Rabbi Marvin Heir, Dean and Founder of the Center, presents a frightening picture of “institutionalized hate” that “has Jews feeling threatened and demonized. Many living in fear.” FULL STORY...
My contributory remembrance to this fifth anniversary of Bush's infamous invasion of Iraq is neither a journalistic peace memorial to that holocaustic, still ongoing conflict; nor is it a disguised book review of Bilmes' and Stiglitz' "The Three Trillion Dollar War." FULL STORY...
Is the Bush administration ramping up for an attack on Iran? The signs seem to point in that direction. On March 11, Navy Adm. William Fallon, commander of the U.S. forces in the Middle East, retired early because of differences with Washington on Iran policy. And now, Dick Cheney's current Middle East tour may be designed to prepare our Arab allies for an imminent "preemptive" war against Iran. FULL STORY...
Australian, British and American forces illegally invaded the sovereign nation of Iraq on 20 March 2003. The invasion occurred after a 12 year period of bombing and sanctions associated with 1.7 million excess deaths (avoidable deaths, deaths that should not have happened), 1.2 million under-5 infant deaths and 0.2 million violent deaths in the Gulf War. FULL STORY...
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