Collecting My Thoughts

 A Lakeside friend, Susan Hanselman, posted this on Facebook.  Generally, I like my advice to have a source, but some of these are worth che...

"As an evolutionary biologist, I am quite used to attempts to censor research and suppress knowledge. But for most of my career, that k...

 The joke is that common sense isn't very common.  But what is it? Pew Research has studied the effect of religion on every day life a...

Government bureaucrats, from your local board up to Arne Duncan (Dept. of Education) will demean your concerns, calling parents the educat...

Who bears the responsibility? If the managers and owners of Peanut Corporation of America knew about the salmonella contamination, they are ...

A good book for the New Year I really like key #2. That was the name of the newsletter I used to write--No Free Lunch--about coupons, refun...

Health care scams and scares What happens when medical science conquers a serious, deadly disease--like eliminating small pox or polio throu...