Category: Current Affairs
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When war is raging, every day is Memorial Day. (Editorial Cartoon: Memorial Daze by Nick Anderson, Houston Chronicle.)
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Eighteen year old Samantha Larson of Long Beach, California has climbed the highest seven mountain summits on all continents. On May 16th she reached the top of Mount Everest, making her the youngest American to have achieved this feat. During her Everest climb she packed her oboe along with her climbing gear so as to…
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(Pope Benedict in Sao Paolo, Brazil, May2007) Actually it is the Pontiff’s runaway mouth that needs a brake. Pope Benedict XVI, who succeeded the charismatic and popular Pope John Paul II has made an embarrassing number of faux pas during his short reign. Stiff in his demeanor and lacking the people pleasing skills of John…
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It is not healthy to be paranoid about our health. But it is also not wise to be lackadaisical about common sense measures that can prevent the onset of disease. Innovations in medical technology and research make available to us prevention programs and information on life style changes that protect against life threatening and debilitating…
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Melamine has now been found in the feed given to farmed fish. There goes another part of the human food chain! Farmed fish have been fed meal spiked with the same chemical that has been linked to the pet food recall, but the contamination was probably too low to harm anyone who ate the fish,…
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In the run up to the unnecessary war of choice in Iraq, the Bush administration used several slick phrases and slogans as pep talk to gain public support for the criminal and as we know now, foolhardy enterprise. Many of the more notorious ones still come back to haunt and taunt the bellicose warmongers –…
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Once again a sordid story is unfolding in our capital involving people in power and their sexual foibles. Fortunately, this one is playing under the radar and has not (and hopefully, will not) assumed the proportions of an Anna Nicole Smith or American Idol size saga. What after all, is new about the powerful seeking extra-constitutional,…
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Most of you have by now seen news reports of the May Day rally at MacArthur Park in Los Angeles which turned violent when some demonstrators threw bottles and cans and the LAPD opened "fire" with rubber bullets and charged into the crowd with batons (the CNN report here). Although the incident is reported in…
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Should a foreign government pick and choose what "kind" of people from another nation may or may not be allowed to enter a country? Unofficially, we know that it happens all the time. Visas are routinely refused to members of "suspect" ethnic / religious groups. Muslims (and even bearded, turbaned non-Muslims and olive skinned men)…
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Today is May Day. It means different things to different people – to celebrants of spring, labor organizations, political protesters and anarchists. In communist countries it is a state holiday in honor of International Labor Day. There is much speculation this year whether Cuban president Fidel Castro who is sick and has not been seen…
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The mysterious disappearance of colonies of honeybees across several nations has alarmed commercial beekeepers who rent their services to a variety of large farming operations, due to what has been termed the Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Entomologists and apiologists have been proposing and testing hypotheses ranging from radiation from cell phones (‘Turn off your cell…
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"Riverbend," the young Iraqi woman whose blog Baghdad Burning gave us a glimpse into her first hand, personal, beyond the TV cameras view of Baghdad during its invasion and occupation, is moving out of her home. She and her family will leave Baghdad for a new life elsewhere. She describes her feelings about leaving her home…
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Links to some recent events – all a bit disturbing, none wholly surprising. Slam Dunk to Infamy: George Tenet, the former CIA chief who was one of Bush-Cheney’s chief enablers in the criminal invasion of Iraq, is attempting to clean up his own guilty legacy and like all other rats, moving to abandon the sinking…
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