Month January 2011

On mental health and guns

HuffPo reports that Arizona allows anyone concerned about the mental health of another to report them to authorities to have them evaluated, even as they’ve slashed the mental health budget there. (Many other states are of course doing the same.)…

Arizona sheriff links Limbaugh words to shooting

“The kind of rhetoric that flows from people like Rush Limbaugh, in my judgment he is irresponsible, uses partial information, sometimes wrong information. [Limbaugh] attacks people, angers them against government, angers them against elected officials and that kind of behavior…

Israeli vulture cleared of spying charges

This is certainly good news. No innocent bird — even a vulture — deserves to be held on trumped up charges. I also hope that R65’s colleague, reportedly still circling around Saudi Arabia, will stay safe.