It's nice to know that irrational hatred of gay people isn't confined to Christian extremists in the good old U. S. of A.  A ten day gay pride festival is being planned for the city of Jerusalem in August.  And the NYT reports:Now … [Read more...]

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[Try accessing the articles referenced below from this page.]OK, OK, so I just got around to reading the Economist from a couple of weeks ago ... and I'll have what they're having: Stronger FDA enforcementof post-marketing studies and … [Read more...]

An occasional series on U.S. History.Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist wrote In his 1989 book "Transplant" that when he was a student at Harvard Medical School in the 1970s he routinely went to animal shelters, pretended to adopt … [Read more...]

Last year I sent a few bucks to Richard Morrison, who was running against House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, The Most Corrupt Man in Congress. (Many of those links require registration... you can surely find your own.)I don't think of Tom … [Read more...]

An occasional series on U.S. history.7 October 2004 from The Washington Post: "The 1991 Persian Gulf War and subsequent U.N. inspections destroyed Iraq's illicit weapons capability and, for the most part, Saddam Hussein did not try to … [Read more...]

The current issue of Scientific American contains a superb editorial blasting creationism, intelligent design, and other faux science.  You have to be a subscriber to read all of the editorial on SciAm's site, but another site has … [Read more...]

The LA Times reports that "'Culture of Life' Issues Split GOP."  Indeed.  We've already pointed out that a true "culture of life" does not slavishly adhere to the views of Jerry Falwell and his ilk, and that … [Read more...]

Don Asmussen with typically trenchant commentary from SFGate.com (click on image to see at full size): … [Read more...]

A truly excellent catch by the NYT's David Rosenbaum.  The Social Security Administration's website has a large set of Questions and Answers.  One of them goes as follows:Question: I think I could do better if you let me invest … [Read more...]