But I know Mitt's not the only one. The oddly- and-recently-again-red-headed Lou Dobbs would love to be on the ticket, any ticket. Dobbs/McCain, Dobbs/Obama, Dobbs/Clinton, or probably most preferably: Dobbs/Dobbs. The Tale of … [Read more...]
My Lai, March 16, 1968
Here's a link to a Boston Globe article on the 40th anniversary of the My Lai massacre of 500 unarmed Vietnamese civilians by US troops led by Lt William Calley & Captain Ernest Medina on March 16, 1968. … [Read more...]
Pipi’s Mom
A (633 patients) 2002 Johns Hopkins study supported by the National Institute on Aging, (http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/press/2002/July/020709.htm , excerpts in italics) estimates that up to 32% of older women are anemic. Anemia...has been … [Read more...]
Supreme Court Rules on Admissability of Evidence of Bias in Corporate Culture, Discrimination Suits
The Supreme Court ruled that courts may, on a case-by-case basis, consider allegations of discrimination by co-workers, offered as plantiff's evidence of biased corporate culture. (Sprint v Mendelsohn 06-1221) While the case reviewed was an … [Read more...]
Hawaii Caucus Final Results
2004 caucus: Approx 4,000 total votes 2008 caucus: Approx 37,000 total votes Local Democratic Party officials had predicted and prepared for a 300% increase in participation to 17,000, not the 37,000 who actually showed up. … [Read more...]
How we choose…
In my opinion, however, it appears that Barack Obama has resolved his struggle around his identity as a bi-racial black person in a white world (In his self-reflective book "Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance") in … [Read more...]