What Are We Thinking?
Surely by now everyone has heard about the school in Maine that’s handing out birth control to 11-year olds. The issue has mainly been discussed from two viewpoints: “they’re having sex anyway, let’s keep them from screwing up their lives” and “handing them the pill will give them a license to have sex.”
When [...]
Social InSecurity
I had considered writing something for Blog Action Day, but I just couldn’t bring myself to write on environmental topics considering the very important meaning of today’s date. October 15, 2007. The very first baby boomer, today became the first one to apply for Social Security retirement benefits. Her name is Kathleen [...]
Required Reading
If you have a few minutes, you absolutely must read this essay by Michael Crichton. It’s an excerpt from one of his later books, State of Fear. You’ll see the name Margret Sanger pop up. In case you don’t remember, Margret Sanger was the founder of Planned Parenthood. Knowing that she [...]
Through the Looking Glass
Before heading out to work today, John turned on the TV to get a weather update. The news program he flipped to was talking about Britney Spears’ performance at the Video Music Awards. I had heard the speculation that she was drunk, and to be honest she kindof looked the part with her [...]
Foreclosure Madness — People Who Shouldn’t Own Houses Hardest Hit!
Every day I’m seeing more and more articles like this one.
“The Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America said Countrywide (Charts, Fortune 500) was not doing enough to help people who took out subprime adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) over the past few years and now may lose their homes. Subprime loans are issued to borrowers with poor credit [...]
Justice for All
You read it here second (Groklaw was first): SCO loses.
Actually, SCO lost big time. The court ruled that Novell owns the source code and copyrights to Unix SVRX and that SCO was negligent in not turning over the funds it accepted from Sun and Microsoft for SRVX licenses. Because Novell owns [...]
Do You Know What’s on Your Dinner Plate?
If you do, then you’re well ahead of me.
The “pet food scare” started with certain wet pet foods; foods that I happen to feed to my cats. By luck or divine intervention my cats didn’t get sick despite eating some of the recalled foods. When the culprit was named as contaminated wheat gluten, [...]
