Today in Moronia
Virtually all of Western science that is not Greek flows from an ancient Chinese “pseudoscience.”
Although long known to scholars, the I Ching became one of the more surprisingly popular manifestations of New Age culture when Bollingen brought out a one volume edition of Richard Wilhelm’s translation in 1967. Read more »
Cheney also insisted that Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden were secretly married in Massachusetts, then adopted a Chinese baby.
Anybody who text messages while driving, unless the message being texted is, “Hey, what’s happening? I’m in my car now, just about to crash. Please say goodbye to my family. And if I cause someone’s death beside my own, would you sincerely apologize for me….”
ABC News anchor Charles Gibson, for introducing a propaganda piece: “A bit of a surprise today. Two long and persistent critics of the Bush administration’s handling of the war today wrote a column in the New York Times saying that after a recent eight-day visit to Iraq they find significant changes taking place.” In reality, Michael O’Hanlon and Kenneth Pollock originally supported the war even before it began. Pollack’s 2002 book was titled The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq. Read more »
Joe Darby was a reserve soldier with US forces at Abu Ghraib prison when he stumbled across those images which would eventually shock the world in 2004.
And then he was sitting in a crowded Iraqi canteen with hundreds of soldiers and Donald Rumsfeld came on the television to thank Joe Darby by name for handing in the photographs.
“I don’t think it was an accident because those things are pretty much scripted,” Mr Darby says.
Food production is now so energy-intensive that more carbon is emitted providing a person with enough calories to walk to the shops than a car would emit over the same distance. The climate could benefit if people avoided exercise, ate less and became couch potatoes. Provided, of course, they remembered to switch off the TV rather than leaving it on standby.
Dean Becker has a really terrific and compelling entry in the Republican YouTube debate challenge. What about the insane war on drugs? he asks. Dean used to be a cop. Now he’s one of the nation’s leading advocates of drug decriminalization.
It’s a really good spot. I’ve been thinking about writing a piece on the questions that are never asked at any of these establishment political debates — prison reform and the drug war.
Cleavage Column Draws Critiques And Support
“Does this have anything to do with whether Clinton should be president? Not a thing. But do we want to read the column about her cleavage? Yes indeed. It was the most viewed story on the Web site all day.” –Washington Post Ombudsman Deborah Howell, quoted in Editor & Publisher.
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By SHANNON BROWNLEE
HAVE you ever wondered why hospitals offer free cancer screening tests? You’ve heard the ads on radio, and seen them in newspapers, urging you to come to your local hospital for a free Pap smear, mammogram or prostate cancer blood test.
Hospitals would like you to think they are doing this out of the goodness of their hearts, that free cancer screening is a public service intended solely to improve your health. But there may be another motive at work here: providing free screening brings in new cancer patients, and cancer generates profits.
By RALPH W. MOSS
In the current system, if a promising compound can’t be patented, it is highly unlikely ever to make it to market — no matter how well it performs in the laboratory. The development of new cancer drugs is crippled as a result.
From the February 2007 issue of Prison Legal News.
By Matthew T. Clarke
According to a report released by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics in April, 2006, the U.S. spent a record $185 billion for police protection, detention, and judicial and legal activities in 2003. This represented a 418% unadjusted increase over 1982 justice expenditures. Adjusting for inflation, real justice expenditures almost tripled.
The first stage of Canada’s controversial annual harp seal hunt is likely to be scrapped because the ice floes where pups are born have broken up and many animals have drowned, officials and animal rights activists said.
The first part of the hunt, which was due to start today, occurs in the Gulf of St Lawrence to the south of the Magdalen Islands on the east coast. Hunters move across the ice floes, shooting and clubbing to death young seals.
Go to original by David Ljunggren in Ottawa
“Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
–Sir John Harrington (1561-1612) Epigrams, Book iv. Ep. 5. Note 1.
Sex, drugs & rock 'n' roll made me crazy — thank God!
