Day December 4, 2004

The "pro-democracy" party in Ukraine

This Pora poster shows a jackboot about to crush a cockroach, odd symbolism indeed for a political party that claims to be pro-democracy. Dig a little deeper, and one finds the jackboot may well be quite intentional. Pora continues to be…

Back to the Dark Ages

Some federally financed sex education programs that teach an abstinence-only approach have factual errors and are ineffective, a Congressional report says. The report says some of programs erroneously teach, among other points, that condoms fail to prevent H.I.V. in heterosexual…

Stupid cat tricks

So I’m sitting having the morning coffee a few days ago, reading the newspaper. One of the cats, Joey, is on the table, with his paws on a windowsill when something outside startled him. Up he leaps, landing squarely on the…