Righteous Abortion: How Conservative Christianity Promotes What It Claims to Hate

Righteous Abortion: How Conservative Christianity Promotes What It Claims to Hate Valerie Tarico January 22, 2012 One of the great ironies o...

Why Mega Cruise Ships Are Unsafe: Opinion

Many of you will have by now seen multiple photographs of the stricken Costa Concordia. Just as surely as many of you will have seen photogr...

Costa Concordia: Were ''Salutes'' an Accepted Part of Company Policy?

I suppose the only thing that you can rely on regarding the hype surrounding the Costa Concordia, is that you can rely on nothing surroundin...

The Caging of America

The Caging of America Why do we lock up so many people? by Adam Gopnik January 30, 2012 A prison is a trap for catching time. Good reporting...

Essential England

I rediscovered this detail from a map in the archive, and can't remember where it came from. Except it must have been from a 50s holiday...

Anonymous Hacks Into The FTC Online Security Site

Anonymous hacks into the FTC online security site, warns of more protest action 24 Jan,2012 If SOPA/PIPA/ACTA passes we will wage a relentle...

Surrey Police Covered up Dowler Hacking for Nine Years

Nice huh? Police Covered up Dowler Hacking James Cusick 24 January 2012 Surrey Police knew for nine years that the News of the World had bee...

What Causes Insulin Resistance? Part VII

In previous posts, I outlined the factors I'm aware of that can contribute to insulin resistance.  In this post, first I'll list the...

Creationists, Every One of Them, Are Today's Cunts of The Day

Creationists, every one of them, are today's Cunts of the Day. The UK's Guardian reports that annoying Richard Dawkins is celebra...