Day December 4, 2004

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…

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…

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…