Pacific Threat: 80 Percent of Fish Set to Be Wiped Out
Pacific Island nations are expected to lose 50 to 80 percent of fish species by the end of the century.
False Charges Of Fake News Damaging A Free Press
The front-runner candidate for the Alabama Senate seat vacated when Jeff Sessions became Justice Secretary, Republican Roy Moore, called The Washington Post “fake news” after the newspaper published a thorough investigation reporting on sexual encounters between Moore and multiple teenage girls, one as young as 14.
Researchers: Drinking Coffee Is Good For Your Liver
A report from Coffee and Health, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to research on the health benefits of coffee, has suggested that overall coffee might reduce the risk of liver diseases as much as 70 percent, based on research into the relationship between coffee and liver cancer, cirrhosis and chronic liver disease.
Sexual Abuse: It’s Not Just About Women and Girls
by David P. Greenberg OK. Something needs to be said about all these sexual abuse allegations floating around, about both Democrats and Republicans, celebrities and...
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe Given the Boot
Zimbabwe’s ruling party, ZANU-PF, has voted to sack President Robert Mugabe as its leader. Members also voted to name sacked Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who Mugabe fired on November 6, as new party leader.
Top US Nuclear Commander Won’t Launch ‘Illegal’ Nuclear Strike
The commander of US Strategic Command says he wouldn’t launch a nuclear strike he believed to be “illegal” if ordered to do so by President Trump, CBS News reports.
SNL Takes On Sexual Harassment and Al Franken
Saturday Night Live has become America’s conscience, but with a comedic twist. The sexual harassment allegations wracking virtually every segment of society predictably surfaced on the latest episode of SNL.
Do We Need Written Rules For What Constitutes Sexual Harassment?
Listening to the outpouring of sexual harassment complaints, I’m getting to point that I’m afraid to leave my house much less speak to a female in public. No one need worry about me running for any public office because I’ve a past that will likely come rolling forward like a freight train.
Was Africa Better Off Under Colonialism?
European nations in particular took control of many African countries. Britain, Portugal and France among them. It was a bad time to be African. The slave trade was booming and life was harsh, to put it mildly, for most Africans. As time went by European nations relinquished control of their African colonies which had to be a good thing, and the various African countries formally became independent nations in their own right and, in theory, everything would now be hunky dory.
What’s Behind the Curtain?
There are names – secret names behind things and if you know it, you have magic power over that thing or entity. Heard that one? I’ll bet you have. Words not only have power but words precede the reality they have power over. The snake eats its own tail.
A Leader Who Is Too Damn Dumb To Know Better
by Burr Deming We heard it as an impromptu bit of indelicate phrasing: He was President, The World Trade Center came down during his reign....