And here's yet another way the rich are different from you and me: They have more psychiatrists. But according to a feature story in today's…
Read moreFascinating to watch. According to a France24 news service report: The video of FARC rebels benignly handing over the 15 hostages to disguised Colomb…
Read moreJesse Helms was a racist, a gay-basher, an enemy of women's rights, an enemy of public broadcasting and the arts, and one of the most reactionary…
Read moreI have been a leftwinger all of my adult life. As an undergraduate at UCLA, as I put it in an article I once wrote about my early activist days, I w…
Read moreMy voice has been just one small shout in the chorus of progressives disappointed in what appears to be Obama's major slide to the center of the …
Read moreAlong with 14 other hostages. Truly cause for celebration. More thoughts soon, but here is some background on Betancourt and her kidnapping from the…
Read moreAs readers of this blog know, I am a big booster of Ken Laster's "In the Groove...Jazz and Beyond" podcast. This week's show featur…
Read moreReaders closely following world news will have noticed quite a few articles recently about the situation in Afghanistan, all with pretty much the sam…
Read moreOkay, the other day this blog had its first ever sports item, today is the first ever cooking item. Before he went into science writing, your blog ho…
Read moreHuman behavior is very complex, especially human sexuality. Recently I wrote about the "gay paradox," that is, how could supposed "ga…
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