Just came across Congressman McGovern's latest Facebook status. He was to be protesting in front of the Sudanese embassy against the humanitarian current crisis in Sudan. McGovern, George Clooney, Nick Clooney (George's father) and Martin … [Read more...]

What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. (Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene ii) A new survey out from Pew Research brings this quote to mind. They asked a sample size of 1546 Americans … [Read more...]

Two week ago, the polls stood at roughly 60-40. Now, I have no doubt that for that 40% of the state, or 3/4 of Brown's ultimate votes, feelings ran much as my friend feels. And I understand those feelings. I'm upset over what happened in … [Read more...]

I'm a little late on this... OK, over a week late, but I just saw this, and in all the Senatorial fuss it seems not to have been mentioned here. Bess Lomax Hawes died on Friday, November 27. Hawes was a folk-lorist, teacher, and singer who, … [Read more...]

Arlen Specter has just announced he will be switching has switched parties and will be running in 2010 as a Democrat. And here I thought the 59th Senate Democrat was gonna be Al Franken... Looks like he's gonna be the much sought-after (but … [Read more...]

The Cold War can be viewed as a massive Prisoner's Dilemma, probably the largest one that's ever existed. If either the USA or USSR had not built nuclear weapons ("cooperated") and the other had, they would have been at a massive … [Read more...]

In the wild, coffee grows as a small tree, up to 15 feet tall, in the undercanopy of subtropical and tropical rainforests. For many hundreds of years, since coffee was discovered in the ninth century in Ethiopia, this is how it was … [Read more...]

Griffin has since realized that being confrontational with the Obama team is not the right way to go about things. Obama's made it pretty clear that he's willing to work with everybody, Democrats and Republicans, but only if they are team … [Read more...]

In short, for these embryos, different rules apply depending on when they die. To be sure, this rule applies only to federal funding. If you have private funding, you can still do pretty much anything you want with ESCs short of growing an … [Read more...]

Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff John Harris were arrested today by FBI agents on federal corruption charges. Blagojevich and Harris were accused of a wide-ranging criminal conspiracy that included Blagojevich conspiring to sell … [Read more...]