| May 14, 2012 | Rights / DemocracyTwo years ago, Mike McIntosh suffered brain damage as well as stab wounds, a broken nose, and other injuries when he was beaten nearly to death during a melee at a prison in Mississippi. A dozen others were hospitalized. The fight, which the Justice Department says a...
| | Environment / HealthThe apparent suicide of Junior Seau, the former NFL superstar linebacker, has again raised the age-old question: “Is playing football dangerous, as in potentially lethal?” Let me think about that. You’ve got a sport where 240-pound people are paid to...
| | Economy / BusinessAnother way that the rich are different from you and me is that their bankers serve them freshly baked chocolate-chip cookies. The über-rich, of course, are used to such coddling, but now a class of customers that bankers have dubbed the “mass affluent”...
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| | Environment / HealthYou have to hand it to the Catholic bishops. They not only define abortion, but also birth control, as murder. And they’re willing to pin the very future of their Church to this arcane belief. Sounds a bit like the Republican Party. Public reaction to this...
