| Oct 22, 2014 | Food / FarmingAs airlines, cruise ships, and hospitals cope with waves of Ebola jitters, I’m wondering whether the panic the deadly virus is inducing will distort Halloween traditions this year. No, I’m not talking about Ebola-related costumes. There are real...
| | Food / FarmingOne Halloween, my husband persuaded our kids to give away most of the candy they’d just collected while trick-or-treating. They were preschoolers and the house we were renting then had previously drawn teens with haunted tours. We’d run out of candy when a...
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| Oct 21, 2014 | Peace / Security|UncategorizedHere we go again — into yet another war in a tumultuous swath of the world we still don’t comprehend. For a preview of what we’re stepping into in Iraq and Syria, let’s remember Afghanistan. In the yesteryear of the Cheney-Bush regime, the promise...
| Oct 15, 2014 | Roundup|UncategorizedThis week in OtherWords, Peter Certo weighs in on President Obama’s Iraq record and Michael Brune says the climate movement prompted Facebook and other tech heavyweights to “unfriend” the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Do you want to...