Author: albert

It’s almost unbelieveable, this AP story via Yahoo! on how Western Union is blocking money transfers to/from people named Mohammad or Ahmed. From the article: Dubai-based representatives from Western Union Financial...

Photo: Joao Silva/NYT I’ve never been in the armed forces and I don’t plan on doing so [the enlistment age was recently raised to 42]. I have no idea how things are normally done under “normal” situations...

Buuuut, you gotta join the Navy. This NY Times article discusses how the Navy is getting a great pool of fighter pilot candidates as more and more top-of-class candidates are opting to get the free laser eye surgery and...

The Supreme Court of the United States ruled 5-4 [guess who voted which way!] in the Hudson v. Michigan case as to whether “evidence can be used against a defendant even when seized in violation of a long-standing rule...

Today was the announcement of our nation’s newest poet laureate, Donald Hall, 77, who has quite a polished New England pedigree. Born in New Haven, CT, schooled at Phillips Exeter, BA from Harvard, Litt.D from Bates and...