Some Home Truths
Freedom and responsibility, choice and consequences. The questions won’t get easier as science advances, and we have to find answers.
Child Abandonments Surge in Nebraska
This is scary: give people the option of dropping their children off at a local hospital, no questions asked, and people will take it. Nebraska has had 35 children of all ages dropped off in hospitals since they passed a “safe haven” law this past summer, meant to prevent infants from being abandoned unsafely. Yesterday, [...]
Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner– SANE
It was 1989 at Women and Infants hospital. I was a counselor-advocate for a woman seeking emergency care after a rape. She told me she had been abducted by two men who talked about killing her. She managed to run away and hide in the woods. She was grateful to be alive. We waited for [...]
More on Podcamp Boston
Yesterday was my first experience liveblogging an event, and as you can see from the skimpy blog post, it was a challenge — getting on wifi, staying online when I paused to listen more intently to presenters, typing on the small hand-held computer screen, shutting off my technology so that I could interact with the [...]
Nice Guys
The weather report in 1977 was turbulent social change with an 80% chance of being insulted for being a bra-burning libber and a 40% chance of being frightened by imminent violence and erupting male rage with a 10% chance of violence getting major and physical. These predictions increased in severity as your social status decreased, but affluence did not guarantee safety.
America’s First Blow for Freedom
Do you know what “America’s First Blow for Freedom� was? If you’re like most Rhode Islanders, who live outside of Cranston and Warwick, then the answer more likely or not is no. That’s sad because it means that the majority of Rhode Islanders are unaware of the important role that Rhode Island played in the [...]
Mathematical Challenge re: Population Growth
Isn’t six billion people enough? Will ten billion be better? What happens when we reach the point of maximum survivability? What do we do then?
Carcieri: Head Start “Biggest Waste of Federal Money”
That’s the assessment from our Governor here in Rhode Island — that Head Start for preschoolers is “the biggest waste of federal money.” A bigger waste of money than, say, building a highway and not testing the concrete? A bigger waste of money than starting an unnecessary trillion dollar war? A bigger waste of money [...]
Children, Disabled, and Elderly to Lose Health Insurance
It’s good to know in our difficult financial times, the right people are being asked to make up the difference. This article from the Associated Press has more details: SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Financially strapped states are looking to take away government health insurance and benefits from millions of Americans already struggling with a souring economy. An Associated [...]
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