| Mar 11, 2014 | Rights / DemocracyMedical science has long known that the optic nerve runs from the retina of our eyeballs to the visual cortex of our brains, letting us see what’s going on around us. Don’t look now, but another “optic nerve” has evolved. Rather than running to...
| Mar 5, 2014 | Roundup|UncategorizedThis week in OtherWords, Timothy Karr explains what’s so bad about Comcast’s plan to gobble up Time Warner Cable while Jim Hightower weighs in on Greg Abbott’s choice to campaign with Ted Nugent at his side. I’m new to Twitter @ESGreco, but...
| Mar 4, 2014 | Economy / BusinessObama’s new budget, is it DOA? Can tax breaks for the poor really see light of day? Well, Paul Ryan’s budget will cut taxes too. Granted, not for the many…just for the few. A budget expresses what a nation finds valuable: A good wage in Harlem? Or a...
| | Environment / HealthOK, climate change deniers. This has gone too far. You’ve gone from just being annoying know-nothings to now posing a serious threat to an essential good that embodies humankind’s finest collaboration with nature: beer. It’s one thing for the science...
| Feb 26, 2014 | Roundup|UncategorizedThis week in OtherWords, Maude Barlow explains why we need to save the world’s water before it’s too late, Pamela Powers Hannley sizes up Arizona’s latest legislative embarrassment from a local perspective, and Jill Richardson points out that many...
