My last living grandparent died last night. My grandma Pauline was in the hospital for a couple of days, with what started out as something bronchial, which progressed way too quickly. She was getting IV antibiotics, but her veins collapsed. They had to go in through her jugular. She was in such a debilitated state before this even started that ( Read more... )

Otherwise known as HR 310. It's as "accurately" named as any other recent legislation; that is to say that it is, clearly and unashamedly, a *censorship* bill. I think the thing that disturbs me most, however, is that I'm a regular observer of both CSPAN and CSPAN 2; they've been broadcasting a lot of things that are *not* what's going on in the ( Read more... )

... more worried, perhaps, than if they were stone-cold certain, one way or another.

HOBART, AUSTRALIA - Scientists have discovered dramatic changes in the temperature and salinity of deep waters in the Southern Ocean that they warn could have a major impact on global climate ( Read more... )

I have never been able to parse an answer to this for myself that isn't rife with relativism and capitulation. I have never been able to get a reasonable answer to this question... at all ( Read more... )

That's what this article is called, and it's the best title (imho). I'm pretty dumbfounded by the "cut your nose off to spite your face" attitude by the so-called environmental groups described therein, but not *completely* surprised. I'm interested in what you all think (as always):

Shrub likes to trot out the accusation of "waging class warfare" whenever anyone dares speaks truth to power about the repercussions of his policies. The following pretty much sets the facts out plainly about where the real class warfare is being waged and by whom:http://

This is my horoscope for the week beginning tomorrow:

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I was meditating on your horoscope as I rode ( Read more... )

Would George W. Bush have been reelected president if the public understood how much responsibility his administration bears for allowing the 9/11 attacks to succeed ( Read more... )

Here's a joke 3 friends of mine would tell around the common-room table while they were studying their economics coursework together ( Read more... )

American Courts awarded American soldiers taken hostage and *tortured* during the 1991 Persian Gulf War what was considered to be fair compensation for their abuse at the hands of Saddam Hussein's regime. So why is the (increasingly Orwellesque in title) Justice Department taking these former POWs to court to prevent them from collecting? The ( Read more... )