Thorns in Her Crown
I know I should leave this alone, but Talking Points Memo has a quote from an editorial about the blood libel of Sarah Palin in the Washington Times… This is simply the latest round of an ongoing pogrom against conservative thinkers. The last two years have seen a proliferation of similar baseless charges of racism, [...]
Recipe for Disaster
Dora Calott Wang, MD in Psychology Today describes what we all know– cutting back on mental health is costing us all… As a psychiatrist, I remember when I once did everything in my power to keep a disturbed patient stable, and society safe. I’d see the patient every day, or hospitalize the patient for months, [...]
Shovel that Sidewalk
ProJo.com has an article about the snow-covered sidewalks. You can be ticketed for not clearing the sidewalk in front of your property. Most of the people on my street do the right thing, but then you come to a wall of snow where someone didn’t, and you have to walk in the street. Or drive [...]
Innocent
From today’s New York Times… Gun Fair Organizer Acquitted in Boy’s Uzi Death By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: January 14, 2011 Filed at 3:20 p.m. EST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts jury acquitted a gun fair organizer of manslaughter in the 2008 death of an 8-year-old boy who accidentally shot himself in the head [...]
Religion and Politics
A quick post– no time to write today. I don’t believe that there are no coincidences, but I do believe that politicians don’t pull out unusual turns of speech randomly. If they didn’t choose their words carefully they wouldn’t get the votes. Everything they do or say in public life either has an agenda or [...]
Humiliation and Vengeance
No one is disputing that Jared Loughner is mentally ill. As more of his speech and writing emerge the picture comes into sharper focus. Some brain damage, possibly alcohol poisoning, drug abuse, symptoms of schizophrenia, behavior that frightened classmates and friends. There’s little fear that he will get off on an insanity defense. Since John [...]
The President’s Address
Very powerful, and very challenging. It was a call to put anger aside and to deal with our problems in an unselfish and patriotic way. It’s hard when the pain of this assault is still fresh and accusations are flying, but I’ll try. Transcript of the President’s address is here. The invocation by Dr.Carlos Gonzalez [...]
One New Thing Every Day
Just as the days begin to lengthen, a new local blog comes on the scene. Mary Grady’s ‘One New Thing Every Day’ is an illustrated natural history of Rhode Island. Mary is a writer and science teacher, recently a contributor to Natural News Network. Check out her blog for signs of Spring.
Beauty Survives
Kathy Hodge, at Art and Nature visits the newly opened Medieval collection at the RISD Museum, and encounters a messager in stone… The medieval gallery had been closed for a long time while they expanded the museum and just recently reopened, New and Improved. They even added subtle medieval-style music, which is nice to listen [...]
Right to Peaceably Assemble
Last week I went to Angel Taveras inauguration, out in front of City Hall at the end of Kennedy Plaza. The crew was reasonably prompt on that freezing day, but still took a little time for set up. I saw some workers assembling a plexiglas box, and I wondered if this was going to be [...]
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