On this day in 1776, the Declaration of Independence was approved by the Continental Congress, setting the 13 colonies on the road to freedom as a sovereign nation. My special tribute to America’s independence day will include lots of kooky trivia of no real importance.
2.5 million– In July 1776, the estimated number of people living in the [...]
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CALLER: Thanks, Rush. Rush, listen, I voted Republican, and I didn’t — really didn’t want to see Obama get in office. But, you know, Rush, you’re one reason to blame for this [...]
Even a director as talented and quirky as Spike Jonze is unlikely to meet my expectations for the film treatment of my favorite book of all time. A movie version of Maurice Sendak’s classic Where the Wild Things Are has been ‘in development’ for decades, but is finally scheduled for release on October 19. [...]
Score one for rational thought! Kind of…
Yesterday the critical thinking faction of the Texas State Board of Education defeated the efforts of their religious idealogue colleagues to ensure the state’s schoolchildren would never be instructed in any scientific principles that contradict their deeply-held fairy stories of creation. Because, you know, science equals alchemy, which was [...]
On February 2, Martin Jahnke, a 27-year-old pathology student originally from Germany, took off his gray athletic shoe and winged it at Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao during his speaking engagement at Cambridge University.
Jahnke was apparently inspired by Iraqi journalist and Dogood hero Muntazer al-Zaidi, who flung the shoe heard round the world at President George Bush [...]
There’s been much discussion over the era of racial healing sparked by the election of America’s first black president. A segment on Good Morning America today chronicled the reformation of a former KKK member and avowed segregationist. My keyboard is spattered with tears after watching the emotional reunion of Elwin Wilson and Congressman John Lewis.
In [...]
The story of Nujood Ali is simultaneously heartbreaking and inspiring.
One year ago, when she was nine-years-old, her father married her off to a 30-year-old man, supposedly to protect her from the dishonor of kidnapping or rape that had befallen two of her older sisters.
In Yemen, it’s not considered a stain upon honor for a woman [...]