Month: October 2014

Is anyone surprised that when the times get tough the well-off stop contributing as much to charity, but the middle and lower classes increase their giving? I guess compassion for the less fortunate only stretches so far when...

Imagine if our government and the other governments of the major developed countries had paid attention to Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) when they were running around with their heads on fire regarding...

Saw this in Oui’s diary and thought it worthwhile to add my own thoughts about it. UPDATE: Mea culpa on getting the Rabbi’s name wrong. It is Shlomo, not Shalom. Changes have been made. As for the objection to the...

Well, maybe. The Asia Times has some analysis about some news that US media have ignored or have been blind to the significance of as a result of tunnel vision on fossil fuels, the Middle East, and the shiny keys of the new...

Good morning Tribbers! John Baer connects some dots in the Pennsylvania’s Pornogate scandal. Tim Kaine wants to “constrain the president’s unilateral power to make war”, a power I don’t believe actually...