Update: This is a repost from something I came across last month with a few edits and adds. I hasn’t seemed to get much coverage but I think it is something worth knowing about. I submitted it to Slashdot.org and it has been in pending status for 3 weeks. Most of my submissions to them [...]
From Salon.com, March 7th, 2007: As thousands of burned-out soldiers prepare to return to Iraq to fill President Bush’s unwelcome call for at least 20,000 more troops, I can’t help wondering what the women among those troops will have to face. And I don’t mean only the hardships of war, the killing of civilians, the [...]
Talk about a Hot-Button issue. If you haven’t heard about Read ID, read on. It’s scary. Starting three years from now, if you live or work in the United States, you’ll need a federally approved ID card to travel on an airplane, open a bank account, collect Social Security payments, or take advantage of nearly [...]
The following is from the New York Times opinion section on March 4, 2007: The Must Do List The Bush administration’s assault on some of the founding principles of American democracy marches onward despite the Democratic victory in the 2006 elections. The new Democratic majorities in Congress can block the sort of noxious measures that [...]
Daylight Savings Time (DST) has been the under fierce debate since its inception at the Prime Meridian Conference of 1884. It was put into action by the United States government in 1966 after the bill known as the Uniform Time Act passed. It seems that most do not understand the actual reason for using it [...]
