I'm not a big fan of big Pharma. There's a good reason for my attitude. Many drug companies are selling hype rather than bona fide drugs. And some of those big drug companies have been caught outright lying. Merck has already been shown to have killed tens of thousands of…
Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi assumed the role of a true Believer in order to see what it's like to be one. In Taibbi's entertaining and well-written article, "Jesus Made Me Puke: And other Tales from the Evangelical Front Lines," he describes that he almost got too caught up in…
Glenn Greenwald, a former constitutional law attorney, is now a contributing writer at Salon.com. He is the author of a number of books. His most recent book is titled Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics. Greenwald, a severe critic of the American media, discussed the state…
The new Ben Stein movie, "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" opens today. It is only showing in Wehrenberg Theaters farther out from the city. (Movies.com link). Before today, it has only been seen by fundamentalist congregations, hand-picked audiences, and selected legislatures. If you've read my earlier post and long comment thread…
How bad is the economy? In the May issue of Harpers Magazine, Kevin Phillips cuts through the numbers in an article entitled "Numbers Racket: Why the economy is worse than we know." The revelations Phillips makes are shocking. The U.S. government has been consciously cooking the books for decades. How…