Month: April 2005

I think I’ve written like 3 or 4 posts like this because every Sunday the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, goes on his special TV and radio program and blasts off a few incendiary statements. So every Monday I read...

Below are the first suggestions for Frog for a Day (we may need a new name) winners. In case you missed the first diary, the basic idea is to attempt to both expand the readership/membership of the BooTrib, and the site’s...

Uganda has performed well in bringing down the HIV prevalence to around 6%. In many parts of the country, it was at least three times as high during the early 1990s. [Prior to the Wingnuts getting into it’s panties] The...

God, Bushco, Money, RFIDs? Gosh, so many choices. The question I ask is Who or what do we want to Control the rest of our lives? Will I even have a choice? I fear that the ‘choice’ will be made for us, is being made...

A teacher friend of mine told the unnerving story of another teacher who got into serious trouble because students had used a cell phone to video-record him in the classroom. Ubiquitous surveillance cameras, cellphone cameras...