Month November 2007

Kudos to the Hartford Courant for their three-part investigation of the hideously substandard care at Haven Healthcare. The state just suspended their admissions and is determining how many of the homes will be put into receivership. The CEO, it appears,…

Students at a Baltimore college erected a makeshift border fence between dorms and classrooms, and demanded that other students to provide a passport. If they couldn’t, they were told they couldn’t cross. In a refreshing change, campus security, who are…

Patrick Moore left Greenpeace in the 80’s over “ideological differences” and now co-chairs a pro-nuclear power coalition. The people who were most concerned about climate change were most opposed to nuclear power. Greenpeace is against fossil fuel, nuclear and hydroelectric…

We moved from L.A. to Connecticut this year. This morning our three California-raised cats stared in bafflement out the window at the fluffy white objects falling from the sky. I took Joey outside, put his paw in snow. He look…

‘Alan Greenspan really made a mess of all this. He pushed out too much liquidity at the wrong time. He supported the tax cut in 2001, which is the beginning of these problems. He encouraged people to take out variable-rate…