Month: February 2007

What’s Reporting Got to Do With It? Everything.

The news just keeps on coming. This time, Newsweek reported that between 500 and 1,000 OEF/OIF veterans are homeless and that “[military] families [are] sliding into debt as VA case managers study disability claims over...

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Scientific Illiteracy

There is no difference between global warming deniers and evolution deniers. If only because they are usually the same people. Like the Rev. Jerry Falwell, for instance. As a matter of introduction, I won all of my...

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Some Thoughts on the Presidential Race

Back in 2000 I had an argument with one of my brothers who was intending to vote for George W. Bush. He didn’t dispute that Bush had the intellectual curiosity of a retarded monkey. But, he pompously informed me, we...

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