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The late George Carlin always seemed to be able to express what I was thinking so much more eloquently and cleverly than I ever could. His cynical and brutally realistic perspective always strongly resonated with me, especially as a fellow Catholic-raised atheist. I really miss his genius, wit and snark. Here is one of my [...]
“Along the way you will be witness to what I have witnessed my whole life, some of the worst realities in Mexico,” said one member of National Assembly of People Affected by the Environment (Asamblea Nacional de Afectados Ambientales–ANAA). This perhaps set the tone for an itinerary that is not likely to be offered by [...]
Is there or isn’t there a breeding population of cougars in the region immediately west of and in the northern Great Lakes states? The question has arisen again after news that a dead cougar found in southwest Minnesota is of indeterminate gender. Had the animal been clearly identified as female, the likelihood would increase that [...]
Unlike the Vélib bike-sharing program in Paris, the largest in the world, which has had a bit of a problem with bike theft and vandalism, it seems that this is an issue of little or no concern for U.S. bike-sharing programs (and others around the world). Noah Kazis of Streetsblog New York City writes: For [...]
Cedar’s biological mother had no knowledge of ever being artificially inseminated by the government when she was a girl. There had been strange abdominal swellings, unexplained erratic stabbing spasms, a sudden emergency surgery, dark blurry images of a harshly lit clinical facility, and lots of blood. Doctors told her that they had removed many massive [...]
