What Was New on this Website (Jan-Jun 2011)

 

29 June 2011

 

An Absolute “Must Read” — Phil Angelides’ Exposé of America’s Ruling Class’s Attempt to Lie about Its Causation of the Financial Disaster that Impoverished Ordinary Americans — Brilliantly Done (29 June 2011)

 

Fat Cats Successfully Fighting Big Daddy Banks for Compensation after the Mortgages They Bought for Investment Purposes Went Bad — but Still No Justice for People whose Homes Were Taken Away — Now Ain’t that Just Like the New American Plutocratic Way? (29 June 2011)

 

27 June 2011

 

Maureen Dowd So Accurately Portrays our President’s Reluctance to become More than a Cowardly Conniver — Why Does President Obama Consider Himself Immune from Moving the Burden of Life Responsibly Forward? (27 June 2011)

 

26 June 2011

 

Former State Department Officer Matt Sherman Accurately Stated that Afghanistan’s Population Is Not at the Desperation Point that Motivated Iraq’s (at Least Temporary) Turn Around — but He Avoids Drawing the Necessary Conclusion (27 June 2011)

 

23 June 2011

 

Senator John McCain — America’s Voice for Demented Militarism (23 June 2011)

 

21 June 2011

 

Poor Communication Weakens a New Study’s Public Safety Message about Drinking and Driving — Are There No Scientifically-Minded Editors Anywhere? (21 June 2011)

 

18 June 2011

 

A Clever Allegorical Essay from Henry Allen Regarding Our Society’s Unwillingness to Cope with the Facts that Underlie Our Decline — F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Perspective on Culture Revived (18 June 2011)

 

17 June 2011

 

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster Worse than Advertised? — Al Jazeera Thinks So (17 June 2011)

 

16 June 2011

 

Living in America’s Never-Never Land — the Optimistic Nonsense that Americans Are Asked to Swallow about Traumatic Brain Injury (16 June 2011)

 

Al Jazeera’s Excellent Journalism — A Short Documentary about Trucking across Pakistan’s Hair-Raising Lowari Pass Road (16 June 2011)

 

15 June 2011

 

Hope for Meaningful Leadership Was Dashed in New Hampshire’s Republican Presidential “Debate” (15 June 2011)

 

13 June 2011

 

One Person’s Kindly Demeanor Can Positively Flavor a Day — Valuing Government Employees (13 June 2011)

 

12 June 2011

 

Brainlessness as a Media-Supported American Lifestyle — Columnist Kathleen Parker’s Accurate Perspective on the Utility of Actually Thinking (12 June 2011)

 

11 June 2011

 

Does the Shortage of Generic Cancer Drugs Suggest an Argument for Government Subsidies, Reworked Tax Policy, or Sponsored Manufacturing? (11 June 2011)

 

10 June 2011

 

Half-Mast — Reminders of War in a Time of National Forgetfulness (10 June 2011)

 

09 June 2011

 

Haier 2.7 Cubic Foot Refrigerator — Product Review (09 June 2011)

 

08 June 2011

 

Haan Slim & Light Model SL-35 Floor Sanitizing Steam Mop— Product Review (08 June 2011)

 

07 June 2011

 

Edsal E-Rack Bulk Storage Shelving — Product Review (07 June 2011)

 

31 May 2011

 

Ian Fletcher’s Perspective on the Need for Government-Funded Innovation — and Two Simple Principles He Suggests as Justification (31 May 2011)

 

30 May 2011

 

Escaping Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) — What the Industry and the USDA Disingenuously Deny (29 May 2011)

 

29 May 2011

 

A Tenth Memorial Day — and the Inexcusable Wasting of American Lives Continues in Afghanistan (28 May 2011)

 

28 May 2011

 

Regarding Product Reviews — Digital Camera Review Sites Almost Always Miss Critically Important Characteristics, so Look for What the Pros Have to Say (27 May 2011)

 

27 May 2011

 

How Delayed Justice Is Not Justice at All — the Arrest of War Crimes Criminal, Ratko Mladic, and the Still Fresh Memories Awakened in Former U.N. Spokesperson, Kelly Moore, Who Was in Bosnia During the Slaughter (27 May 2011)

 

25 May 2011

 

On Perceptions of Moral Conscience, a Tendency to Blame the Messenger for Giving Notice that We Have Gone Badly Astray — the Abuse Heaped on Professor Cornell West for Eloquently Illuminating President Obama’s Broken Promises and the Resulting Moral Failures of His Administration (25 May 2011)

 

24 May 2011

 

When the Judiciary Has to Force the Other Two Branches of Government to Act Ethically, Are We Seeing Warning Signs of a Morally Failing Society? — The U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision in Brown v. Plata and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ Opinion in Veterans for Common Sense v. Shinseki (24 May 2011)

 

23 May 2011

 

An Example of How Worse-than-Stupid, Double-Dealing Hypocrisy Reigns in American Political Affairs — Texas, Its Wild Fires, and Demagogic Air-Head Governor Rick Perry (23 May 2011)

 

19 May 2011

 

A Quiet American Greatness and the Power of Its Good Example — New York Police Arrested International Monetary Fund Director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, on his Alleged Rape Victim’s Story Alone — Women’s Human Rights Attorney Cheryl Thomas Draws Our Attention to What’s Right with the United States (19 May 2011)

 

18 May 2011

 

Religion, when Practiced in Name Only as Osama bin Laden did, Is an Evil that also Consumes Western Religious Culture — Rabbi Boteach’s Moral Teaching (18 May 2011)

 

16 May 2011

 

Plutocracy Is Back at Work in the U.S. Supreme Court — When Little Guys Agree to a “Take-It or Leave-It” Contract Arbitration Clause that Prohibits Class Actions, They Cannot Class Arbitrate to Recover Small Fees that Corporations Have Stolen from Them — even when State Contract Law Permits  (16 May 2011)

 

15 May 2011

 

Sheer Class, Jim Lehrer’s Tenure and Exit from What Is Now the PBS NewsHour — the Professional Values that, if Emulated, Would Restore Journalism into the Democracy-Preserving Institution that It Once Was (14 May 2011)

 

14 May 2011

 

Spiritually Necessary Humility — Perspective from Archaeology (14 May 2011)

 

12 May 2011

 

The Federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Rapped the Veterans Administration for Unconsionable Delays in (a) Caring for Veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and/or Suicidal Thoughts and (b) Responding to Veterans’ Death and Disability Claims  — Our Self-Indulgent Civilian Culture Treats the Military Like an Admirable but Disposable Class of Indentured Servants (12 May 2011)

 

10 May 2011

 

A Study in Pennsylvania and New York Found that Methane Concentrations Were 17 Times Higher (and Potentially Dangerous) in Water Wells Near Natural Gas Hydraulic Fracturing Sites than Concentrations in Wells More than 1 Kilometer Away — Another Demonstration of the Public’s Forced Subservience to Self-Interested Corporations and Lax Government (10 May 2011)

 

09 May 2011

 

Avarice as a Deadly Sin — Brief Reflections on Corporate Corruption’s Grip on Us (09 May 2011)

 

07 May 2011

 

Lawful Morality in Regard to Arresting Terrorists — Glenn Greenwald Asks Us to Assess the Legal Legitimacy of the Execution of Osama bin Laden — My Answer Is that Realism and Nuance Often Trumps Principles In Balancing Survival Risks (07 May 2011)

 

04 May 2011

 

A Necessary Argument — Disputing John Feffer’s Criticism of the United States’ Allegedly Counterproductive Martyrdom of Osama bin Laden (03 May 2011)

 

02 May 2011

 

A Contrast in Levels of Strategic Competence — Getting Bin Laden Special Forces-Style versus Invading Two Countries at Unproductively High Cost (02 May 2011)

 

26 April 2011

 

Another Cost of War — Not Knowing How Many Civilians Have Died and Not Knowing How Many More of Our Own Troops Are Being Killed under Rules of Engagement Meant to Prevent Collateral Civilian Deaths (25 April 2011)

 

25 April 2011

 

The First Volume of the Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill Investigation Shows that Corner-Cutting and Lack of Adequate Regulatory Supervision Led to the Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit Disaster (25 April 2011)

 

22 April 2011

 

Grenades, Mortars, and Libya’s Sand — Al Jazeera’s Evan Hill Describes the Chaos that Killed Photojournalists Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros (22 April 2011)

 

21 April 2011

 

It Says Nothing Flattering about American Consciousness that President Obama Started a Third War (in Libya) and Most Americans Have already Forgotten about It (21 April 2011)

 

19 April 2011

 

Racism and Cupidity Still at Work — a Second African-American Mother Arrested for Trying to Advance Her Child’s Education (19 April 2011)

 

17 April 2011

 

A Talented Synopsis Provides a Framework for Sound Political Thinking — Philosophical Counselor Andrew Taggart Summarized Columnist David Brooks’ View of Society in a Concise Fashion that Simultaneously Provides an Analytical Benchmark for Comparative Political Philosophy (12 April 2011)

 

14 April 2011

 

Disparities in Law Enforcement Based on Race and Plutocracy’s Priorities — Going after Barry Bonds for Not Much of Anything and Giving the Financial Sector’s Numerous (Billions-of-Dollars-Stealing) Crooks a Pat on the Back (14 April 2011)

 

President Obama May Finally Have Learned How to Communicate Meaningfully — the Art of the Loaded Synopsis (14 April 2011)

 

12 April 2011

 

Fifty Years Ago, Yuri Gagarin Was the First Person in Space — and the United States Quickly Developed a More Purposeful Energy than It Has Displayed Since (11 April 2011)

 

11 April 2011

 

Pliocene Epoch Arctic Air Temperatures Probably Were 11 to 16 Degrees Celsius Higher than Today — A View of Our Not too Distant Weather Future? (11 April 2011)

 

05 April 2011

 

President Obama’s Casually Displayed Disregard for the Worth of His Words Makes Former President George W. Bush Look Good (05 April 2011)

 

04 April 2011

 

Dealing with Multi-National Corporations’ Tax Avoidance — Robert Samuelson Has an Idea that Might Help (04 April 2011)

 

02 April 2011

 

High Expectations for the Progress of Genomic Medicine Did Not Pan Out — Is It Time to Reallocate Research Funding? (02 April 2011)

 

31 March 2011

 

Until We Fix Ourselves, the Hope of Fixing Others Is a Delusion — the War-Making Impulse (30 March 2011)

 

30 March 2011

 

A Good Question about the Failed Evolution of Political Culture — Katrina vanden Heuvel Asks Why Previously Disgraced Leaders Still Have their Opinions Prominently Aired by the Media during Challenging Times, when One Would Think Proven Capability Would Be at a Premium (30 March 2011)

 

28 March 2011

 

Dragged Down by the Voluntarily Ignorant — Does the Mediocrity Suck-Down Phenomenon Act More Aggressively among African-American and Hispanic Students? (28 March 2011)

 

27 March 2011

 

Climate Change and Positive Feedback Mechanisms — Russia’s Northern Forest Composition Is Changing to More Warmth-Tolerant, Needle-Retaining Species, thereby Increasing Ground Heat Retention (27 March 2011)

 

25 March 2011

 

President Obama’s Cynical Abdication of Leadership in Libya (25 March 2011)

 

23 March 2011

 

A Cochrane Collaboration Review Confirms that People Overestimate the Benefits of Medical Interventions, When those Are Expressed Solely in Relative Terms — Using Absolute Numbers Enhances Understanding among Patients and Doctors (22 March 2011)

 

22 March 2011

 

If Ya Don’t Know Nuthin’, How Smart Ya Gonna Be? — The American Public’s Ignorance-Based Approach to almost Everything, Including the Libyan War (22 March 2011)

 

19 March 2011

 

American Strategic Stupidity on Display Again — Short-Sighted U.S. Diplomacy in the United Nations Probably Commits Americans to another Probably Counterproductive Intervention — this Time in Libya (18 March 2011)

 

18 March 2011

 

An Infectious Disease with an Initial 30 Percent Mortality Rate Identified in China — an Impressive Piece of Epidemiology (17 March 2011)

 

Ezra Klein Exposed Former Senator Evan Bayh as an Example of Congress’ Never-Ending Supply of Nation-Damaging Hypocrisy (17 March 2011)

 

17 March 2011

 

Cultural Strengths and Weaknesses on Display in Japan — Fukushima Daiichi’s Radiation Leaks (17 March 2011)

 

16 March 2011

 

Equus Innova 3320 Auto-Ranging Digital Multimeter — Mini-Review (16 March 2011)

 

15 March 2011

 

Would a National Character Trait that Combined Immodesty with a Disregard for Facts Generate Dangerous Domestic and Foreign Policy? (15 March 2011)

 

12 March 2011

 

Defense Secretary Gates’ Unenviable Position — Chewing Our NATO Allies Out under Circumstances in which their Afghanistan-Slighting Behavior Is Probably the Right Thing to Do (11 March 2011)

 

11 March 2011

 

Senator John Kerry’s Washington Post Opinion Column, Calling for a No-Fly Zone in Libya, Does Not Address U.S. National Interests or the Reasons to Worry about a Subsequent Geopolitical Backlash (11 March 2011)

 

10 March 2011

 

“Climate Change” Versus “Global Warming” — Opinion Study Says the American Partisan Divide Can Be Camouflaged by Using the Less Descriptive Phrase (10 March 2011)

 

09 March 2011

 

U.S. Department of Agriculture Decided against Regulating the Planting of Genetically Modified Alfalfa — Possibly a Very Big Deal (09 March 2011)

 

08 March 2011

 

Automated Blood Pressure Measurement of Systolic Hypertension Is More Accurate than Manual Measurement and Helps to Overcome White Coat Hypertension in Primary Care Physicians’ Offices — a Finding with Potentially Significant Impact on Medical Practice (07 March 2011)

 

07 March 2011

 

Improving Education as It Now Exists Will Not Advance the Economic Interests of Middle and Low-Middle Income People— Plutocrats and Politicians Are Lying to Us (07 March 2011)

 

04 March 2011

 

Dosing Instructions Confuse Older Patients on Multiple Drugs — Would Standardized Names for Periods of the Day Help? (04 March 2011)

 

03 March 2011

 

Pew Research Center Opinion Poll Regarding Demographics of Pro and Anti-Gun Control Is Detailed Enough to Be Illuminating (03 March 2011)

 

02 March 2011

 

Coming Trend — Pharmaceutical Companies as Research Parasites (02 March 2011)

 

01 March 2011

 

Dyson “Animal” Vacuum Cleaner — Review (01 March 2011)

 

28 February 2011

 

Bissell QuickSteamer® Model 1770 Multi-Surface Upright Cleaner — Review (28 February 2011)

 

26 February 2011

 

Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) Velocity of Change Is Not a Good Indicator for Biopsy in the Absence of Other Risk Factors Says New Research (26 February 2011)

 

How to Make Microsoft Outlook 2010 Automatically Check for New Email Messages Every Few Minutes (26 February 2011)

 

Surprising Details Expose Governor Walker’s Plutocratic Cronyism in Wisconsin — Economist Paul Krugman Found this Gem Hidden in the Legislative Bill that the Governor Proposed (25 February 2011)

 

25 February 2011

 

A Psycho-Spiritual Three-Second Rule? (25 February 2011)

 

24 February 2011

 

An Updated Very Long Baseline Array (of Linked Radio Telescopes) Is Back in the News — Farthest Distance Yet Calculated with Reportedly Only a 9 Percent Error (24 February 2011)

 

Possible Changes in Patient Priority for Kidney Transplants — Highlights the Inescapable Rationing Element in Medicine (24 February 2011)

 

RoVer® Rust Remover — Review (24 February 2011)

 

Behr Biodegradable Concrete & Masonry Cleaner Degreaser No. 990 — Review (23 February 2011)

 

23 February 2011

 

An Interesting Natural Experiment in Disease Resistance Is Underway — Will Hibernating Bats Evolve the Ability to Resist White-Nose Syndrome? (23 February 2011)

 

19 February 2011

 

Turning Cowardly Political Foolishness into Spineful Seriousness — Where Does One Start? (19 February 2011)

 

17 February 2011

 

From Bahrain, a Two Sentence Description of Authoritarian Evil — In Memoriam, Mahmoud Abutaki and the Other Fallen (17 February 2011)

 

16 February 2011

 

A Little Bit of Real Money in the “Waste, Fraud, and Abuse” Category — Says the Government Accountability Office (16 February 2011)

 

14 February 2011

 

“Scumbag John” — Speaker of the House Boehner as the Face of American Government (14 February 2011)

 

12 February 2011

 

Politically Liberal Over-Representation in the Social Sciences Is So Extreme that One Wonders How Many of the Field’s Findings Are Accurate (12 February 2011)

 

11 February 2011

 

Momentous Egypt — Hope for Humankind from a Place that Once Seemed Unlikely to Offer It (11 February 2011)

 

09 February 2011

 

USA Today’s Super Bowl Ad Meter — A Good Example of Apparently Influential Nonsense (09 February 2011)

 

06 February 2011

 

China’s Inevitable Rise to Eminence Means that the United States Needs to Prepare for the Challenge (06 February 2011)

 

04 February 2011

 

Gale Scott’s Outstanding Piece of Lay Science and Medical Writing: “Scientists Discover Mechanism Involved in Breast Cancer’s Spread to Bone” — a Model of How It Should Be Done (04 February 2011)

 

03 February 2011

 

Democracy Is Not a Panacea, but It Is a Start — Fear of Unrest and the Unknown in Egypt (03 February 2011)

 

01 February 2011

 

If You Are Black and Poor, You Get Thrown in Jail — If You’re White or an Asian Tiger Mom, You Skate — The Case for Jury Nullification (01 February 2011)

 

30 January 2011

 

Omron Automatic Blood Pressure Monitor Model HEM-790IT — Review (30 January 2011)

 

28 January 2011

 

Does Working Compassion’s Ground Create a Different Morality than Hierarchical Church Action Based on Abstracted Scripture? — A Catholic Hospital versus the Church (28 January 2011)

 

27 January 2011

 

Short-Term Thinking Is Killing the United States — Are None of Our Leaders Brave Enough to Slap Some Sense into Us? (27 January 2011)

 

26 January 2011

 

Rebuilding Haiti with Stronger Concrete — an Intermediate-Technology Solution Offered by an American Company, Cart-Away Concrete Systems’ Concrete MD (26 January 2011)

 

25 January 2011

 

The Challenge of Drilling into a Previously Untapped Sub-Antarctic Lake, without Contaminating It — Caution, Recklessness, and Philosophical Balance in Science (24 January 2011)

 

24 January 2011

 

While We Americans Lounge around the Illusory Free Market Pool, China Is Taking Authoritarian, Predatory Capitalism to High Strategic Ground (24 January 2011)

 

23 January 2011

 

Is Missing the Crucial Point Characteristic of Newly Minted American Leaders? — An Important Observation from the Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee’s Heather Wilson (23 January 2011)

 

21 January 2011

 

Small Study Finds that Decision-Makers Take 40 Percent Longer to Discontinue Life Support in the Absence of Previous Health Care Discussions with Affected Patients — the Importance of Advance Health Care Directives and Agents (21 January 2011)

 

20 January 2011

 

The Terror Industrial Complex, as “Frontline” Calls It, Is a Metastatic Cancer — Unproductive, Egregiously Costly, and a Threat to American Civil Liberties (20 January 2011)

 

19 January 2011

 

Medical Science — the Difficulty of Knowing Anything for Sure (19 January 2011)

 

17 January 2011

 

California’s Governance Troubles Provide a Mirror for the Rest of Us — If We Are Willing to Recognize Systemic Dysfunction (17 January 2011)

 

16 January 2011

 

Aerosolized Prions Efficiently Transmit Scrapie (and Presumably other Spongiform Encephalopathies Like Mad Cow Disease) in Mice — a New Finding and Possible Warning for Researchers and Slaughterhouse Workers (14 January 2011)

 

15 January 2011

 

Henry Kissinger’s Cold-War Avoiding Analysis of Conflicting American and Chinese Mindsets Is Well Done — His Prescription for Conflict’s Resolution Is Unlikely to Happen (14 January 2011)

 

14 January 2011

 

Pursuing Military Energy Efficiency (with Sprayed Building Insulation) Would Reduce the Financial Costs and Troop Deaths Associated with Fuel Convoys — Says Retired Brigadier General Steven M. Anderson (14 January 2011)

 

13 January 2011

 

An Afghanistan Reminder from Vietnam — 41 Years Afterward, Remains of Colonel  James E. Dennany (Weapons System Officer) and Major Robert L. Tucci (Pilot) Identified from Crash Site in Laos and Returned Home (13 January 2011)

 

11 January 2011

 

The February 2011 Issue of Technology Review Shows Most Everyone Else How to Write Good Lay Medical Science — the Human Genome, Cancer, and the Revolution in Genomic Mechanics (11 January 2011)

 

10 January 2011

 

Kathleen Parker on Professor Alan Gribben — Is She Sanity’s Voice against “Illiterates” Who Would Alter Mark Twain’s Words? (08 January 2011)

 

09 January 2011

 

Reviving Leadership’s Standard — Peggy Noonan on Modernity and “The King’s Speech” (09 January 2011)

 

08 January 2011

 

Distinguishing Crazy from Sane in Science Is Often Difficult — Dr. Luc Montagnier and DNA “Water Memory” (08 January 2011)

 

07 January 2011

 

Fighting over Imaginary Budget Numbers — the Anticipated Battle over ObamaCare Repeal — How Silliness Characterizes American Political Debate (07 January 2011)

 

06 January 2011

 

Rhetorical Abstraction Is an Enemy of Sound Government (06 January 2011)

 

05 January 2011

 

Logitech MK710 Wireless Keyboard and M705 Wireless Marathon Mouse — Review (05 January 2010)

 

04 January 2011

 

Afghanistan, the Volunteer Military, and the United States’ Lost Integrity (04 January 2011)

 

03 January 2011

 

Former Florida Congressman Alan Grayson Was a Welcome Change from Wimpy Liberals (03 January 2011)