I’m listening to an interview on Fox with a Dr. Steven Rayle, an emergency room physician who was an eyewitness to the shooting. He reports that the shooter was only a few feet from Giffords when he suddenly began to … Continue reading →
This is truly terrible news: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head by a gunman at a public event in Tucson on Saturday. There are conflicting reports about whether she was killed. The Pima County, Ariz., sheriff’s office told … Continue reading →
This past Thursday I wrote a post that generated quite a bit of back and forth in the comments section, about the supposed vaccine/autism connection. An issue that’s somewhat related to that discussion is how to decide whether an observed … Continue reading →
Oh boy, speaking of depressing news, we now have this: The words “mother” and “father” will be removed from U.S. passport applications and replaced with gender neutral terminology, the State Department says. “The words in the old form were ”˜mother’ … Continue reading →
…your day:
Continue reading →…the most depressing article I’ve read in a very long time.
Continue reading →David Brooks speaks of the “striking” vulnerability of HCR to challenges, “some of them scarcely discussed before passage.” Scarcely discussed? I guess the supposedly-conservative Brooks didn’t have the time to check out blogs or periodicals on the right, because he … Continue reading →
When Republicans offered their controversial reading of the Constitution at the opening session of this Congress, they and the Democrats who participated decided (wisely or unwisely; you be the judge) to hold back from reading every single word, and instead … Continue reading →
The sad news of the suicide in Boston of Alireza Pahlavi, the youngest son of the late and last Shah of Iran, is the most recent chapter in the sorrowful saga of the family. Here they are in happier days. … Continue reading →
Not an error: a deliberate fraud. Let that sink in a minute. It’s not been an inconsequential fraud, either; I completely agree with the contention, voiced in the British medical journal BMJ, that Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s original study purporting to … Continue reading →
I challenge anyone not to be touched by this story, and especially by the character of the guy’s fabulous mom (remember—ninety, not ninety-two):
Continue reading →The wheels of justice grind slow, but they grind exceedingly fine: A Texas man declared innocent Tuesday after 30 years in prison had at least two chances to make parole and be set free ”” if only he would admit … Continue reading →