There’s nothing much good to say about Ted Kennedy’s diagnosis of Malignant Glioma. But there’s plenty good to say about Ted Kennedy. I recall him speaking at a March on the one year anniversary of MLK’s assasination. It was an unruly gathering, interrupted by outbreaks of violence from black power supporters, tear gas drifting through [...]
I knew that India was once floating in the ocean and slowly slid into Asia creating the Himilayas, but I had no idea that there was still this much seismic activity in inland Asia [bottom figure]. Earthquakes in China, Cyclones in Burma, Volcanos in Chile, Tornados in Georgia. The gods must be angry…
Chaiten Volcano Erupts After more than 9,000 years of silence, Chaitén Volcano in southern Chile erupted on May 2, 2008. The plume of ash and steam rose 10.7 to 16.8 kilometers (35,000 to 55,000 feet) into the atmosphere, reported the Smithsonian’s Global Volcanism Program. According to news reports issued by the AFP news service, [...]
Hundreds of thousands of people were reported to be homeless Monday and food and water were running short in parts of Myanmar in the wake of the devastating cyclone that smashed urban buildings and obliterated villages two days earlier. This first decade of our new century is a mess: Global Warming with climate change, War [...]
Is Horse Racing Breeding Itself to Death? The camera cut away from her, but it should have stayed on her. Eight Belles had run herself half to death yesterday, and now the vets were finishing the job as she lay on her side, her beautiful figure a black hump on the track. Horses don’t just [...]
DC Madam Found Dead in Florida Police were called to the home of DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey’s mother on Thursday to investigate her apparent suicide. Police have confirmed that the dead person is Palfrey who was 52. Palfrey was dubbed "The DC Madam" by the national media after her arrest for allegedly running an [...]
Jeremiah Wright just got through speaking at the National Press Club [watch it here]. I don’t know if it’s going to help Obama or hurt him. But it helped me. In the South, the black church is the best of things. It has always been a refuge for our Afro-Americans throughout our troubled history. It [...]
Ban Urged on Gifts at Medical Schools Drug and medical device companies should be banned from offering free food, gifts, travel and ghost-writing services to doctors, staff and students in all 129 of the nation’s medical colleges, an influential college association has concluded. The proposed ban is the result of a two-year effort by the [...]
There are a number of posts around about the release of the CDC Study: Estimated Pregnancy Rates by Outcome for the United States, 1990–2004. Mostly reporting on the decline in the teen pregnancy rates. So I though I’d take a look. It’s striking how beginning in 1990, there has been a steady decline in Pregnancies, [...]
I guess that anyone who allows himself to think about contemporary politics has days like I’ve had today. I know the indifference shown to things in the news that ought to have people marching in the streets is part of it. We’ve read Memos written by a crackpot lawyer that invalidate our Constitution and our [...]