Why We Don't Have A Race Discussion In America
Region: Wisconsin
WARNING: The following piece contains sometimes very, very strong adult language. Yes, full-exposure psychological nudity. But it’s all true. Abandon all indignation, ye who read here. Larry Elder is a heroic black man (he’s a heroic man period, but in the context of this piece it’s very important to distinguish the fine and intelligent gentleman as a black man). Reading the news today, I find th... more
Views: 1511Parapraxis (Or, Ted Turner's Tongue Slips Out)
Region: Wisconsin
Never mind that scientists like Freeman Dyson feel that the current global warming trend (which isn’t even global and may have already halted or gone into reverse, among other complexities) could well be beneficial to human beings by engendering a somewhat warmer, wetter world with more arable land. Never mind that a group of hundreds “dissident” scientists, economists, and other involved movers a... more
Views: 1813So What? About the Antarctic Ice Shelf
Region: WisconsinPredictably, all too predictably, the fear mongering critters who are shouting about climate change and climate change’s alarms pounced on the reports of the breaking away of a sizeable piece of the ice shelf from the Antarctic during the final week of March 2008. These fear mongering alarmist have, needless to say, completely ignored the fact that even with the breaking-off, the Antarctic ice shelf is still ... more
Views: 1353Parents Pray as Daughter Dies of Treatable Diabetes
Region: Wisconsin
Dale and Leilani Neumann, who reside just outside Wassau, Wisconsin, lost their 11-year-old daughter Madeline to illness and death this week. This was due to the fact that when their precious daughter was seriously ill, they decided that they should pray instead of take their child to see health care professionals. It would seem that Dale and Leilani took literally the New Testament pass... more
Views: 3359Fair Trade Certified Flowers Arrive in Time for Valentine's Day and Spring
Region: WisconsinWith Fair Trade spreading like wildfire in the United States, people shopping for flowers for the Valentine's Day holiday and for the forthcoming Spring (a season that, while only a little more than a month away, seems a year away in these relentless and near-record-setting snowy days here in Green Bay, Wisconsin) are being heartened to see that the Oakland, California-based TransFair USA, which is the nation's singula... more
Views: 1608How Inconvenient for Gore: No More "Global Warming"
Region: WisconsinThe more that things change, the more they stay the same. On December 19th of 2007, David Whitehouse, a PhD in astrophysics who was BBC Science Correspondent from 1988 to1998, Science Editor for BBC News Online from 1998 to 2006, and the 2004 European Internet Journalist of the Year, published in an article, "The fact is that the global temperature of 2007 is statistically the same as 2006 and every year since 2001... more
Views: 1905Wisconsin Union Members: McCain’s Record a Disaster for Women
Region: Wisconsin
Posted by Sue Ledbetter to AFL-CIO NOW In a play for women’s votes, Sen. John McCain held a town hall in Hudson, Wis., to address issues facing women. But workers from around the region turned out at the event to speak out against McCain’s economic and health care record, which has left women in the dust, and to set the record straight on McCain’s claims to support equal pay for women—... more
Views: 846Laura Tennessen Necrophilia Law Passed In Wisconsin
Region: Wisconsin
The Wisconsin Supreme Court passed a law banning necrophilia, sex with dead people, following a necrophilia case involving a deceased girl, Laura Tennessen. In 2006 after Laura Tennessen's death via a motorcycle accident, three young men dug up her body in a southwestern Wisconsin cemetery with plans to have sex with it. They were caught but could not be charged with sexual assult because necrophilia was not illegal u... more
Views: 3897Reading Between the Black and White
Region: WisconsinWell, The Black Guy (you know, that man who is part Kenyan, part European, the dark horse running against the Queen Inheritor Pre-Destined to the Oval Office, The Hillary (go ahead and skewer this writer, he couldn’t resist that pun!) is surely skilled at one thing. (I was beginning to worry, so this is good news, in a perverse sort of way.) No, it’s not speaking eloquently. The people who keep falling ... more
Views: 1319Stem cells may fix breast defects.
Region: WisconsinFor the first time, doctors have used stem cells from liposuctioned fat to fix breast defects in women who have had cancerous lumps removed. The approach is still experimental, but holds promise for millions of women left with cratered areas and breasts that look very different from each other after cancer surgery. It also might be a way to augment healthy breasts without using artificial implants. ... more
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