The other day I received an email from a friend in Memphis, Tennessee that went like this: A stark reminder of the society we live in. These are just a few of the items that appeared on our local news during the last two nights. 1.  Memphis man commits robbery of another individual, then douses [...]

Now this is safe shopping. Can we have a little bit of that in Detroit, please? Thanks to Mark Fee for the link.

Yeah, postings have been not-so-abundant lately, and that may become the new norm. Time is more valuable – and limited – than ever before. November and December have left me bombarded with requests on my time.  Plus, when I do write, I have so many “for pay” articles in the pipeline, and those are my [...]

Time to air out a pet peeve here. Without getting into the whole of disgusting American eating habits, I am going to bring up two of the most juvenile eating habits I can think of, at the moment, that are shared by millions of Americans. Number one: the infantile (adult) infatuation with McDonald’s. Adults hovering [...]

I do not jest – this is real “breaking news” at this hour. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that on an international flight bound for Detroit, a man with a ‘firecracker thing’ on his leg tried to “blow up the plane.” The man, who has not been publicly identified by officials, told investigators that [...]

More Big Pharma antics over at Pharmaceutical Daily – otherwise called the Wall Street Journal. First, there’s a story about Merck & Co’s cholesterol drugs, Vytorin and Zetia, which are, like all of these potent prescription drugs, making people sicker and/or killing them. The FDA had reviewed clinical trials that showed an increased risk of [...]

There are a couple of very notable posts on the LewRockwell.com blog. Lew Rockwell posts this comment, with a link to a most incredible video of a painting being created by an artist who equates the state – and all of its agents – with Jesus. Or as Charles Featherstone put it, “Jesus descending upon [...]

In one of the latest power struggles behind the scenes in Washington, the wealthy and well-represented plastic surgeons – and their clientele – won their battle. As politicians scramble to find ways to pay for the unsustainable national health care plan, they were focusing on taxing cosmetic procedures as a way to raise zillions. This [...]

In my family, Lukken is a tradition at Christmas. I was so excited to find this article online about Lukken. The article describes Lukken as “old-world Belgian sugar cookies, which are buttery and thin, crispy and lightly sweet. They quickly bake in a waffle iron fitted with a plate that marks each cookie with a [...]

Despite the maddening nature of this paragraph from an article in the Wall Street Journal Pharmaceutical Daily, hardly no one who reads the story will notice it: A measure to allow the importation of cheaper prescription drugs from Canada and some other countries fell short in the Senate Tuesday night, but lawmakers were working on [...]