I haven’t written in awhile but the kids are gone and the wife is asleep so I thought I’d mention this story that’s probably going to get buried since it released over the weekend.
Another one of Bush’s top people has resigned after being linked with a DC prostitution service. This time it is Deputy [...]
I should be going to bed but I wanted to direct whatever little bit of audience I still have to two related articles. The first, from The Nation (subscription required, but here’s the interesting bits) regarding a new Unicef report, Child Poverty in Perspective: An Overview of Child Well-Being in Rich Countries:
Congratulations: Children in [...]
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I thought you would like this, nursie.
She will be so relieved.
At least some people in Congress seem to think so. Apparently, a woman is a “female human being who is capable of becoming pregnant.” That is according to page 9 of the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act (pdf). Click the first link to go to Feministing for more reasons this is a [...]
The Bush administration has appointed a new chief of family-planning programs at the Department of Health and Human Services who worked at a Christian pregnancy-counseling organization that regards the distribution of contraceptives as “demeaning to women.”
Eric Keroack, medical director for A Woman’s Concern, a nonprofit group based in Dorchester, Mass., will become deputy assistant secretary [...]
New Scientist has an article about a new painkiller being developed from a substance in human saliva that is non-addictive and more powerful than morphine.
Saliva from humans has yielded a natural painkiller up to six times more powerful than morphine, researchers say.
The substance, dubbed opiorphin, may spawn a new generation of natural painkillers that relieve [...]
I don’t understand the mindset of this country when we are willing to spend trillions on war in Iraq, but contribute almost nothing to help the poor of the world. I don’t know how much it would cost to provide everyone in the world with 20 liters of clean water a day, but it [...]
There was a very good article on TomPaine.com on Tuesday that illustrates the problems with Republican bias against social programs.
The simple fact is that Pelosi’s legislative record on supporting veterans’ health care, education and other benefits is among the best in the House, while Buyer’s ranges from mediocre to atrocious, depending on who’s doing the [...]
What could possibly go wrong with this plan?
Thanks to advances in DNA technology, scientists can now reconstruct new copies of old viruses. Last year United States government scientists reconstructed the virus that caused the influenza epidemic of 1918. Now a team of French scientists has rebuilt a virus that infected our apelike ancestors several million [...]
