You can buy a casket at Costco. I don't really have any comment about this fact. I was simply surprised to see that you could buy a discount coffin (and other discount accessories for the dead). For less than $1,000, you can get the "In God's Care Casket." Not bad,…
This video of John McCain is truly incredible. The questioner asked whether insurers, who cover Viagra, should also cover birth control pills. The simple answer should have been that insurance companies should, indeed, cover birth control pills. Any organization that covers Viagra and Prozac (and vasectomies, much less surgery for…
Think globally, act locally. That's the message of this Common Dreams article, entitled "Energy-Addicted US Can Learn a Lot From Europe." And yes, we can really learn a lot about energy from Europeans. Someday soon, we're going to be having fantasies that we had their fleet of tiny cars, those…
Have things changed since 1966? Those of us alive back then (I was ten in 1966) might need to think back before answering yes. Things must have changed since then, but in what ways? Let's see . . . there were no personal computers. Color TV was a luxury. No…
I carry a little camera with me much of the time, just for moments like this. I was riding a light rail train across the Mississippi River today. The west end of the bridge consisted of a series of heavy metal girders and cables, as well as stone arches. The…