New definition of legality
New AP story:"DOJ: NSA Could've Monitored Doctors' Calls By KATHERINE SHRADER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - The National Security Agency could have legally monitored ordinarily confidential...
View ArticleBlowing into the Wind
I played a concert today blowing into a full gale coming off the water. The band was distraught; not just music blowing away, but stands falling over, instruments damaged. The infinite frustration of...
View ArticleDoughnuts and senior votes
"As you wander throughout life, brother Whatever be your goal, Keep your eye upon the doughnut, and not upon the hole." (On wall mural in old Mayflower Hotel coffee shop in Washington DC) This is...
View ArticleSoldier Inadequately Treated for PTSD Kills Iraqui Family
Ken Kesey would be so proud of the cuckoo's nest we seem to have flown into in the war on Iraq. Inadequate treatment of the mentally ill, the PTSD victims, the soldiers stressed beyond any ability to...
View ArticleIndividual Health Policy Cancellations: systematic, routine and unjustified
Every single one.Blue Cross in California has been routinely cancelling the coverage of women who (horrors!) become pregnant, or people who (heaven forfend!) get sick and need medical care.Kudos to...
View ArticleFDA plans to mislabel your food
I thought about calling this "Vegetables of Mass Destruction--purloined edition" but figured I wouldn't come close to meeting the high standards set by the author of that brilliant series. However, I...
View ArticleA "shelter dog" and a "mutt like me"
In these days of hard economic times, thousands more homeless animals are dropped at our local animal shelters, which cannot keep up with the overflow. Some come from families that find they can no...
View ArticleAlert 7.3 Quake off Haiti coast
And Tsunami warning through Bahamas and points south. BBC reportsThere were no confirmed reports of damage or casualties in Haiti.But witnesses in the capital Port-au-Prince spoke of feeling the shock...
View ArticleWe need to treat well the least among us
Flying late last week, 3 back to back flights. 2 or 4 am I was up late, annoying the steward and stewardess in the galley by standing in their already cramped space, because I couldn't take the seat...
View ArticleBeyond sick-making
Washington Post has just reported in their blog that the Loudon County Republican Party has a halloween montage prominently featuring President Obama with a bloody bullet hole in his forehead. I won't...
View ArticleA tunnel (or bridge) too far?
Skimming the local news, I ran into an astonishing quote regarding possibly tunneling from Virginia to Maryland. I'm not sure this county supervisor was quoted correctly, but if he was it certainly...
View ArticleBloomberg Endorses Obama
Bloomberg just endorsed Obama.Storms have consequences.Wanted to get the word out quickly, because I think this is a significant endorsement coveted by both parties.
View ArticleBreaking: Saudi King Abdullah has died
90 years old. More or less a friend to the US. It will be interesting to see what happens next.Washington Post storyNYT story
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