Pertussis 2011 Summary

More than 200 cases of pertussis (whooping cough) were reported to Maine CDC during 2011, far exceeding the number of reported cases in 201...

Drowning in Hypocrisy: Paul Craig Roberts

Drowning in Hypocrisy By Paul Craig Roberts January 24, 2012 The US government is so full of self-righteousness that it has become a caricat...

Santorum: Pregnant Rape Victims Should "Make the Best" of It As GOP Anti-Choice Insanity Ramps Up

Santorum: Pregnant Rape Victims Should "Make the Best" of It As GOP Anti-Choice Insanity Ramps Up By Sarah Seltzer January 24, 201...

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...