The New Yorker recently published an article by Oliver Sacks, the famous neurologist and author, with an update on an equally famous patient: Clive Wearing, a British musician who suffered an attack of viral encephalitis in 1985. Although Wearing recovered, the infection destroyed the areas of his brain associated with…
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Here are some terrific video clips of President Eisenhower and, more recently, of former Alaskan Senator Mike Gravel. As Gravel plainly states, no president since Eisenhower has dared to talk about the elephant in the room, the military industrial complex. Our leaders rarely speak of it because it has so…
I know that I'm going to get into some trouble with some people as a result of this post. Yesterday, my family visited an art fair where more than 100 artists displayed a wide variety of art. One of the artists, an adult man, offered the following abstract paintings: The painting…
I wish I could have taken credit for writing an article I just read: The presidential primary scam: Why the game is rigged, and why true democracy is only a secondary factor in the nation's rush to nominate the next president. The author is Michael Scherer. Here a taste of…