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• Taming oil spill monster truly awesome, amazing story: Speaking of news stories — I suspect before all is said and done the whole nightmare of the devastation caused by that out-of-control oil spill and the details of how [...]
• Earthquakes abound; Tibow does ’6.66′ — are we near The End??: Earthquakes appear to be on the rise, or at least our awareness of them is rising. Not only did the big one hit Haiti in January, there was a true [...]
• Shock, horror are first response to tragedies in Haiti: As are most people, I have been struck with shock and horror as a first response to the tragedies in Haiti following the recent earthquake there. There simply are no [...]
• How can the World Health Organization possibly hope to win a worldwide anti-smoking battle?: I just read this news story about a new, worldwide anti-smoking campaign ready to be launched by the World Health Organization (WHO). The campaign, which will be based on a [...]
• Battlegrounds in fights over censorship changing: I remember back in the “good old days” (say, anytime before about 1970?) when censorship and censorship issues making the news generally focused on matters of sex and/or graphic violence. [...]
• British display sense of great class, banning Savage and hate-filled Kansas ‘preacher’: The British have shown some real class, in my opinion, by putting radio talk show madman Michael Savage and the hate-filled, hateful, crazy Kansas preacher and his daughter (I’m not [...]
• Everyone should hope, pray for President Obama’s success — then work to help it happen: I just finished watching the Inauguration of President Barak Obama and I was struck again by the HUGE turnout. I’ve jokingly posted here references to Obama as “Messiah” or Obama [...]
• Only bad Bible exegesis says U.S. must ALWAYS back Israeli actions: Really bad Bible exegesis says the U.S. must ALWAYS back Israeli actions, no matter what Israel decides to do, no matter how the react to opposition, no matter how they [...]
• What will end war in Middle East? Will it ever end?: What or who will ever end war in the Middle East? Or will it ever end? Wars have ground down the people and nations we call the Middle East certainly [...]
• Happy Birthday, Israel, and don’t wait for peace to happen soon: The nation of Israel marked its 60th birthday today. There was celebration throughout the land and a number of world leaders, including President Bush, gathered in Jerusalem to make speeches [...]
• One of my favorite people, the ex-president with nothing to lose, Jimmy Carter: I admired President Jimmy Carter when he was president, and not a year goes by following his presidency that I don’t admire the guy a little bit more. Let me [...]
• Global warming? Maybe we’ll just boil like the frog in the slowly heating pot: I don’t know when I first heard this, or whether it’s even true. The story goes that if you put a frog in a large part of water and very [...]
• Charlton Heston, wonderful as a man and in movies, lousy in politics, dies at 83: Charlton Heston, the actor who went through life being “typecast” in popular culture as “God,” died last night in his home in Los Angeles. He was a consummate actor to [...]
• Today has been declared World Autism Day by the UN: My wife, Shirley, and I have been blessed with two wonderful children, now grown and living successful, happy lives. We have known people with autistic children, hence we’ve known a [...]
• Good to know our president plans a ‘happy trip’ to African countries: What it the world is a “happy trip” in regard to the president’s visit to five African countries? With all the grief, all the warfare, and all the general suffering [...]
• You can do anything on the Internet, I guess, but watch out for those cables: In this incredibly high-tech world, it’s always good now and again to remember how vulnerable we are to “low-tech” glitches: Large sections of Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa [...]
• That’s the problem with ‘peace talks’ — always some of the crazies ignore the memo: Peace in the Middle East. Does that phrase ring of fantasy to you, too? Or is it just me? President Bush, God bless him, seems to have taken all that [...]
• Tribute to an odd person who was the world’s greatest chess player: One of my “sort-of-childhood-teen-years-heros” died yesterday in Iceland. If you’re a chess player, you must have heard of him and probably already heard about his death: International Grandmaster Former World [...]
• Bush Administration pulls a boneheaded move, angers NATO allies: I won’t even get started on how stupidly the U.S. has handled the war on terror by invading Iraq and sort of downplaying our efforts in Afghanistan for several years. [...]
• Secret to world peace? Maybe we need some ‘Shut Up Zones’ in real life: I love to read the comics faithfully every day. Okay, I don’t always get the chance to do it, but I usually find a way to read my favorites. And [...]
• Good luck with the Middle East mire, Mr. President: I wish any U.S. president, regardless of party affiliation and/or how I think they’re doing as president, nothing but good luck regarding Israel and the Palestinians. I feel that way [...]
• Will the U.S. take its usual ‘too little too late’ steps in the crisis in Kenya?: I would be among the first to say that the U.S. cannot be the “world’s police force” and intervene militarily in every nation experiencing turmoil. I mean, we should never, [...]
• Bhutto’s assassination leaves Pakistan in turmoil, sparking widespread riots: It’s hard to tell when all the news will come to light regarding the details of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Thursday. Certainly, from the standpoint of someone who [...]
• Queen Elizabeth’s 1957 Christmas message launches ‘Royal Channel’ at YouTube: Here’s a real kick for those of us who keep up somewhat with the royal crowd in England: Queen Elizabeth II and the British royalty have launched the Royal Channel [...]
• Japan agrees to halt plans to hunt humpback whales: Under pressure from Australia and the U.S., the Japanese agreed not to hold their annual hunt for humpback whales near Antarctica. I guess my question would be this: Why in [...]
• I’m almost ready to join the ‘Draft Al Gore’ for president movement: I watched an interview on CNN with President Al Gore — I mean VICE PRESIDENT! — regarding his Nobel Peace Prize, global warming issues, etc. As part of the interview, [...]
• Today was Pearl Harbor Day — honor our troops and our veterans: On December 8, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke these now-famous words to start his speech before a joint session of Congress: “Yesterday, December 7, 1941 — a date which [...]
• Adventure ends happily for ‘Teddy Bear Teacher’ back home in Britain: Saying she “… wanted an adventure … but got more than I bargained for,” British primary teacher Gillian Gibbons returned safely to Britain after being pardoned and released early by [...]
• North Korean nastiness, I guess: How’s this for an ornery little kick in the head on America’s 230th birthday? The North Koreans not only stirred up trouble doing those missile test launches, they did it [...]