I reported a little while ago about Joanne Hill, who murdered her daughter with cerebral palsy. Now, she has been found guilty. From the story: A mother who drowned her disabled daughter in a bath after drinking wine was convicted of murder yesterday and sentenced to life in prison.Joanne Hill, 32, . . . . Continue Reading »
As hot as the culture war can burn, things rarely threaten to get physical. But this past Saturday, South Carolina experienced a brief but violent tremor along a national fault-line when cadets at the Citadel (a military academy in South Carolina) attacked the Princeton University Band before a . . . . Continue Reading »
NASA has commissioned a twenty-eight-year-old science communication student from south Wales to write rap songs about space: A postgraduate student who uses his love of hip-hop to make science easier to understand has been commissioned by space agency NASA to write a rap. Jonathan Chase, who is . . . . Continue Reading »
With few exceptions, the above statement applies to me. It also applies to parfumier Christopher Brosius, who in fact has a store called CB I Hate Perfume . Arts & Letters Daily linked to a story by Jessica Gallucci about Christopher and his interesting collection of scents—Wet Pavement, Roast . . . . Continue Reading »
In a recent previous post, we discussed the reasons why many patients no longer trust the medical system. A disturbing study that found too little empathy from doctors toward their cancer patients could also be a contributing cause. From the story: U.S. researchers who assessed interactions between . . . . Continue Reading »
With the national financial artery severed due to moronic mortgage mismanagers—even I knew these no interest, no down payment mortgages would result in foreclosures, so why didn’t the big salaried?—it seems to me that any chance for a fully funded national health insurance is . . . . Continue Reading »
University of Massachusetts Chaplain Kenneth Higgins, who sought to give students school credit for campaigning for Obama, has been denied . Higgins told students last week: If you’re scared about the prospects for this election, you’re not alone. The most important way to make a . . . . Continue Reading »
Last week, we read about the twenty-year-old college student who was able to access Gov. Sarah Palin’s email account using information he culled from Google. In an interesting turn of events , federal investigators have now revealed that the culprit, David Kernell, son of Democratic state . . . . Continue Reading »
I love this sonnet by Robert Frost, capturing something of an autumnal wistfulness. He begins with a straightforward, almost flat statement, “There is a singer everyone had heard,” but his description of the oven bird’s plain chirrup soon wafts into evocative paradox: “On . . . . Continue Reading »
Some years back, the Washington Post editorial board apologized for an editorial calling evangelical Christians “poor, ignorant, and easily led.” Good thing, too. Writing in the Wall Street Journal , Mollie Ziegler Hemingway reports : From Hollywood to the academy, nonbelievers are . . . . Continue Reading »
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