Month December 2011

Tell Malawi: repeal anti-LGBTI laws

My hat is off to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who recently announced an initiative to insist upon equitable and fair treatment of LGBTI people as a condition for receiving USA foreign aid funds. At least one country, Malawi, has…

Frack no!

After a Wyoming community complained to the E.P.A. a while back that their well water “reeked of chemicals” the agency analyzed the water and found hydrocarbons. So the residents have been advised not to drink the water. And today a…

Harbinger of things to come?

Climate change is happening, rube, so put down the Ambien, Prozac, Viagra and crotch-shots on CNN/Faux News Kool-Aid and turn off the television, because Polar bears are now being observed by scientists resorting to cannibalism, and expect to see more as Arctic sea ice declines. In…