Observations

What happens when a homeless couple shows up at a homeless shelter? The policies and procedures will punish them for their audacity, and rightfully so.

  While scientists remain puzzled as to the cause of  the dramatic decline in honeybee populations in North America and elsewhere, some are speculating the cause may very much be human related; however, not technological, but  philosophical. It appears that...

I'm not a great fan of Cynthia Boaz, but I'll give her fair due. She's written a cracking piece which you can see on TruthOut.org's website, entiled "14 Propaganda Techniques that Fox 'News' Uses to Brainwash Americans." It's a pretty...

DESPITE the treasonous and degenerate Republican efforts to stop us.. DESPITE the RACISTS (whether they care to admit it or not)... DESPITE them ALL, we WILL PREVAIL. "peacekitten" and I (lovers, partners) sent this out on election day 2008.. and...

In yesterday's New York Times, Charles Blow, one of my favourite opinion writers, wrote a brilliant and poignantly evocative exhortation to politicians of all stripes not to forget the poor in all their shenanigans and manouevres. Blow called upon his...

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"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left." - Einstein My morning yesterday was like so many others, riding a crowded train out from suburban Tokyo to neighboring Yokohama...

We are the United States of Shallow Americans. We obsess over the nuance in a phrase or a word and are distracted by the most inane things, thus allowing the sheisters and idealogues, whom we reckon good enough to...

So I understand Keith Olbermann, the multimillionaire media egotist and ex-sportscaster who deems himself eminently qualified to comment on political affairs, whose resurrected show Countdown is an echo chamber of one-sided thought with no room for debate and...

When the Democrats have to be told home truths by Pat Buchanan, you know something is not only rotten, it's shameful. Earlier this week, in one of his many appearances on MSNBC, where he's the Grandpa Munster of political analysts,...