Month: June 2006

It’s more than just experiencing a politician who can simultaneously think and talk, although such has sadly become a rare species. It’s reveling in someone actually making sense, defending values and beliefs and...

[Crossposted from the Real History Blog] Last night, through the Los Angeles Film Festival, I saw a documentary called Jonestown: the Life and Death of Peoples Temple, by Stanley Nelson. What started for some as a noble ideal of...

this diary is dedicated to all who suffer because of war and other disasters we honor courage in all its forms we love and support our troops, just as we love and support the Iraqi people – without exception, or...

The other day I went to see “An Inconvenient Truth,” which turned out to be surprisingly moving.  I was stunned when the form Veep discussed the disparity between the consensus of the academic community and its...

In the category of What Non-smokers Already Knew: The Surgeon General has stated that there is no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke.  Article Separate smoking sections don’t cut it: Only smoke-free buildings...