So the “solution” to cows infected with BSE is to attempt to divert the most infectious tissues (spinal tissues, brains, nerves) from direct human ingestion towards ingestion by pigs and poultry on the assumption...

Four generations of the current president’s family have embroiled the United States in the Middle East through CIA connections, arms shipments, rogue banks, inherited war policies and personal financial links … Ted Koppel put...

[Former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill] likened Bush at Cabinet meetings to “a blind man in a room full of deaf people”.

The weirdness continues… A few days ago I got one of those free credit reports and, checking it, was amazed to see that a debt collection agency, the Collection Bureau of America, had registered...

So long since the last post, I have been rather busy and soaking up the rays… Got engaged to Lisa – on Christmas Day! Bought a guaranteed child slavery-free war-free diamond, from Canada. I...

Ohio is cold, Michigan is colder…

It turns out that one of the paradoxical effects of human-directed climate change is that even as the earth’s average temperature increases, the intensity of direct sunlight hitting the surface is decreasing due to...

Boasting a marble hearth, a built-in family-room entertainment center and a view of the ocean, the two-story hillside structure will be the residence of the Salvation Army’s Santa Monica captain. Officials have spent nearly...

San Francisco’s local bus company, the “Muni”, often features notoriously suicidal and reckless drivers… Seventeen people were injured Monday night when a Municipal Railway bus swerved off Mission Street and crashed into an adult...

Fintan emailed me a nice parallel concerning the display of the Enola Gay in a US national museum. Apparently this airplane has no distinguishing features aside from the fact that it conveyed the first...