Sen. Kerry, as you well know, spoke at a college in Southern California. With bitter humor he told the students that he had been in Texas the day before, that President Bush used to live in that state, but that now he lives in the state of denial ( Read more... )

I still have a soft spot for this publication, for which I used to be a feature writer.

By Tim Louis Macaluso for City NewspaperLess than two months after 9/11, in the nation's heightened state of anxiety, Congress passed the Patriot Act with little debate. The act is one of the most significant changes ever made to laws involving the federal ( Read more... )

"At the time of the Iraqi war resolution, Senator [Bob] Graham of Florida stood on the floor of the Senate and, in an unusual move, begged his colleagues to read the secret papers that we weren't privy to. We now know that those secret papers revealed that the weapons of mass destruction documentation from the CIA was quite skeptical. I don't ( Read more... )

May cause unbridled ecstasy:


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From "Hail the Revelation," by Stanton Peele, in The GuardianThe roots of this process extend deep into revival Christianity in America. The temperance lecture was delivered by a former carouser who had an epiphany that his drinking was evil and turned his life over to God. There is a direct connection between the sinner's religious conversion ( Read more... )

One of our eight adult Malawi cichlids has given birth! I found two small fry hiding in the limestone rocks the other day. We think Luke and Leia are the mother and father, which George Lucas may find interesting as sequel material.


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"There's basically a mass extinction in the making. I think amphibians are just the first wave."

--J. Alan Pounds, ecologist

Global Warming's First Victims

Amphibians, including frogs, are the earth's oldest land vertebrates.

They are also important initial species indicators of environmental imbalance, especially in water supplies.

In these killings we see an open society threatened by the ubiquity of its weapons, in which one kind of freedom is allowed to trump all others.

--From today's NY Times editorial on recent rash of school shootings

I continue to be amazed at how human beings treat each other.

I've posted on this issue before.

Read the NPR story: Critics Blast Texas Plans for New 'Dirty' Coal Plants

So instead of looking for alternate, safer but a little more expensive fuel sources, maybe they'll just dig up the ocean floor and bury as much CO2 as they can manage to? Makes perfect sense.

Also, an excerpt from You Are Now Entering ( Read more... )