Collecting My Thoughts

I don’t specifically buy organic because it is so commercialized (even has special support from USDA). Organic farming uses pesticides , a...

Now we'll be getting protests about bathrooms and transphobia. Fewer than 1% actually have gender confusion. If you go back and look a...

 85% of Americans had health insurance in 2008 either through private employers, federal and state employers, Medicare, Medicaid, VA, BIA, S...

Rodney Stark is a terrific writer , and he has a new book, The Triumph of Faith. "[It] explodes the myth that people around the worl...

The percentage of children in middle childhood (6 through 11) living in low-income families (both poor and near poor) increased from 42% in ...

My friends and I compare notes on how we're doing in clearing out the clutter. Three are planning moves to retirement apartments; we...

In 2015 the Census reported "changes in income, poverty, and health insurance coverage in the United States between 2013 and 2014. The...

I'm withdrawing books. That's librarian talk. We also call that deacquisitioning. I have three locations to take them--church, li...

There is no national data base of the mentally ill that I'm aware of. Yet I know people concerned that the latest restriction on the 2n...