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Nearly half of the USA’s children start school in the middle of August. Another 12% begin before Aug. 14. The kids certainly feel this; their summer vacation has been cut short, and right now they often stand in summer mornings’ heat waiting for a bus, or else stand in summer afternoon’s blazing heat and ozone-poisoned […]
Hurricane Katrina is in the news again. As an anniversary, that is. The anniversary also notoriously celebrates the fact that the federal government, disaster agencies, and insurance companies have yet to do all that much for the destroyed areas, the city, or the people who have lost everything. I have nothing but scorn for the […]
The Democratic presidential hopefuls staged their first debate, and it was not Thursday Night at the Fights. It seems they want to present a more-or-less amicable style to political campaigning against which the American voters can see a stable Democratic Party that has differences, but is not fractious to the point where people say “these […]
The media has a new story, and they’re milking it for all the ratings they can get. Wolf Blitzer stands in front of a four-screen video wall that rotates images of wounded students and cops standing behind trees instead of moving toward the gunmen. He plays an from-the-seen audio and counts down the gunshots aloud […]
The blogosphere has become a powerful entity to an information-hungry citizenship across the world. While in the West we may feel news-and-information saturated, most of the rest of the world—nearer to 70%—do not have the right to criticize their government leaders, nor have free press rights, which again mean no rights to criticize the government […]
