Memorial Day
There’s a house on my street with two flagpoles in the yard, an American flag and a POW/MIA flag. The Vietnam War had all the boys in my high-school class wondering what their draft number would be. The rich always had a way out, but that war reaped the young men of the middle and [...]
Gil Scott-Heron
Gil Scott-Heron, jazz poet, has died. “Revolution” established Mr. Scott-Heron as a rising star of the black cultural left, and its cool, biting ridicule of a nation anesthetized by mass media has resonated with the socially disaffected of various stripes — campus activists, media theorists, coffeehouse poets — for four decades. With sharp, sardonic wit [...]
You Go, Girl!
A lot of great discoveries in physics were made by young scientists, this one is really cool… SYDNEY (AFP) – A 22-year-old Australian university student has solved a problem which has puzzled astrophysicists for decades, discovering part of the so-called “missing mass” of the universe during her summer break. Undergraduate Amelia Fraser-McKelvie made the breakthrough [...]
A Candidate for the Ig Nobel Prize?
I was stuck in traffic once behind a car with a bumper sticker that read, ‘God said it, I believe it, that settles it’. That driver did not seem like someone I’d want to have a beer with, or sit down with at break time. What would you say to someone who broadcast their belligerent [...]
Do You Know Who I Am?
A reporter interviewed the neighbors and friends of Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s victim and paints a picture of a quiet, religious woman whose social network was the French African community in Harlem, NYC. Via Worldcrunch from Le Figaro… By Renaud Girard LE FIGARO/ Worldcrunch NEW YORK – The alleged sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the now [...]
Protecting Their Children in Fukushima
Much has been said about the cooperation and trust in government shown by the people of Japan in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami. Those were unstoppable natural disasters. The man-made disaster at Fukushima is proving that parents everywhere are protective of their children.. A huge outcry is erupting in Fukushima over what parents [...]
Fighting Back
It’s hard to definitely connect a disease to an exposure to a toxin. There are various estimates of how many children got thyroid cancer after Chernobyl, the International Atomic Energy Agency, in a strangely upbeat post , says four thousand. The World Health Organization says five thousand, with a little more consideration of the implications. [...]
Storm Damage
Our good friend Sekanblogger brings us word from Joplin, Missouri, in the wake of the tornado that devastated the town on Sunday. Yesterday, I took off from my morning job and the wife, younger daughter, her friend and I all went to Joplin and evacuated my two grandkids. Taking two vehicles, we picked up the [...]
Price- Anderson Act
Kmareka readers who believe in small government, deregulation and personal responsibility– who trust the free market to solve all our problems– should look up the Price-Anderson Act. Taxpayers carry almost all the risk of nuclear power plants, corporations get the profits. In Japan, the Tokyo Electric Power Company was responsible for its own liability. Until [...]
Rapture Date Moved Up
Harold Camping has emerged from hiding to announce a new Rapture date. OAKLAND, Calif. – California preacher Harold Camping said Monday his prophecy that the world would end was off by five months because Judgment Day actually will come on October 21. Camping, who predicted that 200 million Christians would be taken to heaven Saturday [...]
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