I am at the airport. I say to the Homeland Security official: ”I have a total hip replacement. You want to check me?” “You come with me, Sir.” We walk all of three yards away, where a specially appointed official is waiting to inspect potential terrorists. I reflect that they are fifty years out of …
There are 58 million Americans with physical and mental disabilities. If you have a disability in the U.S, you’re twice as likely to be poor as someone without a disability. You’re also far more likely to be unemployed. According to the Employment and Disability Institute at Cornell University, 28.4 percent of disabled adults worked in …
The Kel-Tec PF-9, 9mm pistol handgun used to kill the unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012 has apparently been sold for $250,000 (£172,000). It was put up for auction by George Zimmerman, who was charged and acquitted of second-degree murder and manslaughter. The killing was instrumental in launching the national Black Lives Matter social …
Last December Pew Research reported that a majority of American adults no can no longer be classified as middle class, owing to widening inequality, declining industry, erosion of financial stability, and globalisation. The effect is general and includes all the big American urban centres as well as the South and rural areas that are normally …
“Death – we make too much of it. All religions do. Of course, I may alter my opinion”. (Winston Churchill)
