Lifelong reader, sometime writer with eclectic tastes and libertarian leanings. Don't hold my semi-notorious Berkeley history against me, I settled down so completely after 40 that I can barely recall my loosy-goosy self. But it sure beats going to the same party every night.
Friday, September 5, 2008 Forget Palin
Let the National Enquirer do its job. Let's get back to the issues.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008 Why don't white people 'get it'? (10 comments)
Please excuse all the generalizations that follow, but making the needed disclaimers would be aside from the point:
Saturday, February 2, 2008 UK and Irish Politicians Denounce Canadian Government Agent's Dirty Tricks over GMOs
An Early Day Motion (EDM) in the UK Parliament succinctly points the finger at the corporate corruption of science, most visible and ruthless when it comes to promoting GM crops, and every part of the corporate structure is complicit, the scientific establishment, the learned journals and big government held to ransom by the biotech industry.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008 Don't Believe the [Conservative] Hype -OurFuture.org (1 comments)
Here's the "Failure of Conservatism," brought to you by conservative ideologue (and now-New York Times columnist) William Kristol. In this video, Kristol butts up against the limits of his own conservative views.
Tuesday, January 1, 2008 My apologies to the president - The Boston Globe
I apologize, Mr. Bush, for blaming you that I didn't get what I wanted for Christmas. I knew it made no sense, even as I was doing it, but you've grabbed so much power over the past seven years, I've fallen into the habit of believing you're responsible for everything that happens..
Sunday, December 9, 2007 AFP: Iran drops dollar from oil deals: report
Major crude producer Iran has completely stopped carrying out its oil transactions in dollars, Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said on Saturday, labelling the greenback an "unreliable" currency. "The dollar is an unreliable currency, considering its devaluation and the oil exporters' losses," he added.
Friday, November 30, 2007 Canada's role in depleted uranium weapons worldwide (1 comments)
DU weapons are considered weapons of mass destruction under international law. Thus Canada may be complicit in the US use of weapons of mass destruction in the 1991 Iraq war I, the 1998 Balkans war, the 2001 war in Afghanistan, and the 2003 Iraq war II, where the British medical journal Lancet estimates that one million civilians have died.
Thursday, November 1, 2007 Profs from top universities say no to false charges of anti-Semitism, attacks on academic freedom (1 comments)
Profs from top universities say no to false charges of anti-Semitism, attacks on academic freedom. Saying that they are fed up with "aggressive incursion of partisan politics into universities' hiring and tenure practices," five prominent academics have issued a call to "defend the university" and gathered dozens of backers in what they view as a new way to bolster academic freedom.
