Pollution hurts fetal health
AP reports research evidence that air pollution changes fetal chromosomes, below. Quite an approach-avoidance conflict for the religious right, I'd say.
View ArticleTopeka Gay-Rights Ban FAILS at the Polls
On Tuesday, almost 37% of Topeka, Kansas voters turned out to vote on a city ban which would have prohibited any legislation preventing discrimination against gays and lesbians, including hate crime...
View ArticleWhy do people shop at Wal-Mart?
Okay, I'm going to be as calm as I can about this, but I'm really distressed about it. I've been reading comments on another diary about how Wal-Mart is evil (and I agree), and hence nobody should...
View ArticleYes, one person can make a big difference--here's the story of one who has
When I get discouraged about things like yesterday's treachery in the Senate, when I feel powerless and wonder what the hell one person like me in the middle of Republican nowhere can do to stop or...
View ArticleSpank me--do it for JESUS
The New York Times has a report this morning about a graduate student of education enamored of spanking students:SYRACUSE, March 8 - As a substitute teacher in the public schools here, Scott McConnell...
View ArticleDeLay: "no comparison" between dad and Schiavo
Yes, it's another Schiavo diary. Sort of. Today's Houston Chronicle story on the stink clinging to Tom DeLay is remarkable for a number of reasons. First, because it exists; the Chron doesn't...
View ArticleBrownback for President a graver threat than others?
This morning's "Topeka Capital Journal" has a front page story on Candidate Brownback. While you may have to register, it's free. The article presented Brownback in a light that disturbed me more...
View ArticleRIP Rho Rho Rho, or trickle-down politics in academe
When I say "trickle-down" politics, I mean way down, down to everyday interactions between faculty, administration, and students. This is about politics on a micro level. About one way that abuse of...
View ArticleRichard Morrison in Victoria: "I'll run again"
Richard Morrison appeared tonight at a meeting of the Victoria (Texas) Democrats Club. Victoria is 120 miles from Houston, a semi-rural red county amid 15 other entirely-rural red counties. After he...
View Article"Food stamp pay"--Texas lege gives self pension raise
Yesterday the Texas state legislation voted to raise their own retirement benefits. They did so by raising the salaries of District Judges, to whose salaries legislative retirement benefits are pegged....
View ArticleHelp--Repub dirty tricks in another Texas race
Republican dirty tricks, state Democratic party incompetence, or both? You decide. The Texas District 18 State Senate seat has been held for years by Democrat-in-name-only Ken Armbrister. He's most...
View ArticleAmish school gunman 20- year old secret
Here, apparently, is the secret that gunman who shot up the Amish school had. Here's what happened to Charles C. Roberts IV about 20 years ago, when he was about 12. According to CNN his wife said he...
View ArticlePlease help--Development threatens last wild Whooping Cranes
Once Whooping Cranes (grus americana) were on the brink of extinction, thought by some to be lost. Like passenger pigeons, like the dodo. Then in 1941 a man bought some isolated Texas land along San...
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Action: Audubon joins Whooper protest. Deadline tomorrow--please help! (It's...
An Austin firm wants to build a large luxury condo development on largely rural San Antonio Bay (in Texas) adjacent to the land where the last remaining wild flock of 250 highly endangered Whooping...
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