2012

Happy New Year to one and all. I truly hope that 2012 will exceed both 2011 and your expectations.

More Natural Diet

This story on BBC News goes right along with the first comment here. The article begins with A diet rich in vitamins and fish may protect the brain from aging while junk food has the opposite effect, research suggests. Elderly people with high blood levels of vitamins and omega 3 fatty acids had less brain [...]

Hoover Heck & Glen Canyon Heck

Rick Perry is terminally stupid.  One of my very minor concerns is whether or not the American taxpayer will have to pay the salary of the guy who, 24/7, must remind him to breathe. From the  Texas Tribune  yesterday, Dec 29.  I am not concerned with Perry’s lack of a response to the original question [...]

Jury Duty

I had not heard of the term “jury nullification” when I was selected to be on a 12-person criminal jury about twenty years ago.  But over the years I have spent time considering that week of my life.  Reading this Daily Beast story dredged up some of those thoughts. After 20 or so years, my [...]

I Will Vote . . .

. . . for the Democrat, all the time, or I will not vote at all for that particular office.  I will vote for President Obama even though I vehemently disagree with far too many of his policies. Why?  You really don’t have to ask.  All the clowns (my apologies to those real clowns that [...]

The Food Supply

My father-in-law has Stage 4 terminal cancer.  He is done with chemotherapy and appears to be growing weaker by the day. And that is a good enough reason, if I need one, to speak to the issue of human beings and the food supply.  A few months back, I heard part of an interview with [...]

This Not A Book Report

There is something in each of the two books, that I am currently reading, that I find interesting. First – Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer – Phyllis Bennis. Ms. Bennis does not have chapters in her book.  The table of contents consists of a series of questions and the page number on which that [...]

How To Beat The Bankers

I have put a lot of thought into what the next step should be/could be that can direct all the pent up frustration that was on display at the #OCCUPY encampments.  And the words of this song, Written by Kris Kristofferson, whom I feel is the best songwriter on my generation, came to mind.  The [...]

Still Dangerous

At this post, I made the following comment  but the Antarctic is still a very dangerous place And now news of this potential tragedy at the warmest time of the year in Antarctica “It’s a very remote, unforgiving environment,” said Andrew Wright, executive secretary of the Australian-based Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living [...]

Where Indefinite Detention Will Lead

First, a third party in the USA is not going to happen. Second, none of the Republican clown-pretenders, pandering to the radical fringe has the intellect to be president.  But, then again, W’s intellect is only slightly greater than Rick Perry. Third, indefinite imprisonment of suspected terrorists, to be enshrined in law when POTUS signs [...]