Author: Earl

Maybe, anyhow.  I learned about it from an article in the NYT. In the west-central part of Northern Territory, Australia there lives a group of aborigines who were forcibly relocated to that spot after WWII, as a result of a drought affecting their original village, over 300 miles to the

The comments are closed on BW’s latest post – I’m not sure why, unless she figures she doesn’t want her e-mail clogged while she’s on vacation.  Having written that, now I’m SURE that’s why……so there you are. Anyhow, here’s a thread for comments on that post….and I’ll start! I’ve never

Well…..opposed to Obamacare, at any rate. Tell me that, in your wildest dreams, you imagined the heads of UNITE-HERE, the Teamsters,  and The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union coming together to denounce the Affordable Care Act, saying that it would “destroy the foundation of the 40 hour work

Oooooops!! That title might have been more “sensitive”, given the story at hand. An elementary school student (10 years old) in Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK was forbidden by his teacher to drink from his water bottle because…..wait for it…..because Muslim classmates who were fasting for Ramadan might get upset! This on

A Dallas-area high-school physical education teacher has just retired, after wearing exactly the same out fit for 40 consecutive yearbook photographs.  If you watch the video that shows all 40 photos, you WILL notice that he didn’t keep the same glasses for all those years – I guess we can

That is the headline on a Miami Herald article that is (as far as I can see) remarkably fair and even-handed.  Of course, I’m not sure WHAT we would do without “Legal Analysts” to let us know these things…..who could have discerned that the prosecutors had NOTHING, and so put

William Murray, Lord Mansfield said that……and Saturday night, six very brave women took it to heart and declared George Zimmerman not guilty….. Not guilty of second degree murder, and not guilty of manslaughter….because he was acting in self defense when he killed Trayvon Martin. Reactions are coming thick and fast

Hugh Hewitt played the announcement on the radio this afternoon, and I practically drove onto the sidewalk laughing…..!  As I live and breathe, the news-reader lady actually read these names straight….and never caught on (how clueless are journalism graduates?). Sum Ting Wong Mee Tu Lo Ho Lee Fuk Bang Ding

I really don’t feel like commenting on this short essay. However, despite the fact that he highlights a couple of serious problems in our society (lack of fathers, attacks on perfectly normal boys), he’s far too glib. Trayvon’s Skittles were not a sign that he was just a teenage boy,

Apparently, the NSA was holding a meeting on a college campus for purposes of drumming up some interviews with students who might be interested in working for the agency.   After the presentation, they made a mistake — they had a Q&A. The first question on the recording is something like

In Comal County, Texas, there’s a teenager who’s been in jail for almost four months because his family can’t come up with half a million dollars bail money.  His crime?  He made a “terroristic threat” on Facebook while joking around with a friend. . Apparently, someone in Canada saw his

…..because 42 years ago, his high-school self served a night in jail and a year on probation for misdemeanor pot possession. This story provides grist for any number of mills…..let’s get rid of drug laws; let’s get rid of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System; let’s legalize pot; etc.

I’m guessing that a lot of people aren’t following the George Zimmerman trial all that closely. Anyone depending on the major media, including Fox News, has no clue what is really going on. The very best place I’ve discovered if you want to be well-informed, is Andrew Branca’s commentary and

It makes me sad to say this, because I believe in organ donation, but I’ve gone to California’s Remove Me From the Registry website and taken my name off the list of organ donors.  The decision was made after watching the gradual loss of our medical system’s culture of the

A bit of background to explain my interest in this subject – our family has been Seventh-day Adventist for at least four generations. SDAs have pointed out the connection between physical and spiritual health since early on after the church emerged from The Great Disappointment. Part of this focus has