Month: February 2010

This is the second in a two-part series about my visit to the Rainman Landcare Foundation in Durban, South Africa. Cross posted from Nourishing the Planet. The Rainman Landcare Foundation, founded by Raymond Auerbach, is...

That’s what Lebanon’s Prime Minister, Saad al-Harir, claimed may be in the works today in an interview with the BBC in which he accused Israeli aircraft of repeatedly violating Lebanese air space on a daily basis:...

Having grown up in Princeton, New Jersey, the Ivy League culture and the rules and pleasures of intellectual debate (no matter how pretentious) are like second nature to me. I’m guilty of enjoying the whole sad spectacle,...

If the ‘debate’ over health care reform struck you as odd, both in its irrational nature as well as in the fact that many people adopted the same, strange irrational arguments, then prepare yourself for the latest...

Remember my friend who was beaten to a pulp in a hate crime committed by two bigoted animals? He had to get stitches for facial injuries. But when it came time to remove the stitches he didn’t go back to a doctor or...