I had prepared a blog posting for today, but feel unable to post it after the atrosity committed in London yesterday. I would be inappropriate, and even uncaring. Such a savage attack had to be expected at some point. But I would prefer to be silent on this occasion in memory of the innocent foreign …
Republicans are exercised at the moment about leaks emanating from the White House and other government departments. For them this is a much bigger issue than Russian interference during the election, or whether it’s acceptable to prevent moslems from countries, which so far have no connection with terrorist activity, from entering the United States. What …
“We seem intent on blinding ourselves, ripping out the smoke detectors even as the house begins to burn”. (Bill McKibben, founder of climate change campaign 350.org, in Wired magazine, February 2017) And this is from Tom Engelhardt, who produces Tomgram: “The the most unforgivable of crime of all , is about to be wrought by …
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Thought for a Sunday. The following was originally published in the New York Times. A commentary on political hypocrisy: And Jesus Said Unto Paul of Ryan … What would Jesus tell House Speaker Paul Ryan about looking after the sick and the needy? A woman who had been bleeding for 12 years came up behind …
Modern, high-intensity farming is charged with causing food to lose some of its goodness. Could organic food offer an alternative? This is a controversial question. Antioxidant levels are higher in organically grown plants, according to a meta-analysis of existing studies published last year. However, in 2012 researchers at Stanford University in California found no strong …
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