Random Thoughts of a wing nut liberal

In the runup to the Iraq war, the McClatchy chain had the best reporting; here is another example of McClatchy scooping all the big boys. t...

Toothbrush Headphones for your MP3 player Underwear or socks Fingernail clipper

calculating payments on a mortgage is very difficult to do by hand. In the old day, say pre 1970, before PCs or even calculators (when I wen...

A frequent problem with social science experiments, like the taxicab in this one is that the experimenter asks people to do things that are...

The problem with answering this question is that when a company has a patent, we hear about it, particularly if the patent leads to money.

Time magazine, inside of the back cover,Feb 22 A photo of the  actress Rebecca Romijn and her twins hawking milk. Aside from the fact that ...

WGBH, home of sesame street, publishes a "members magazine" called explore ! (no shit, they actually have the exclamation point ) ...

Prominent in American Foreign Policy during the Vietnam war Wikipedia . Lets see what that really means.

Among the rightwacks, it is accepted that the US is more charitable then any other country (we give more dollars per capita to charity). And...

1) forget the stem cell stuff and go electronic. Some day, in the distant future, after expenditures of hundreds of millions of dollars, st...

as an uber liberal, I admire rush - he is hardworking, entertaining, and very good at what he does; I imagine that walter winchell was like ...

Last night, Wensday 27 Jan 2010, President Obama delivered his state of the union (SOTU) speech. The actual speech differs from the prepared...

Countless stores, acres of floor selling space, nothing to buy.... Our coffee maker broke, so I went out to Mall Land - which, for those o...

The New York Times, certainly one of the most influential, profitable and important old media voices in the country, has staked its future o...

Bet they had this same problem back in 1900, and maybe even in 1800 like the problem with how to say alot when texting and tweeting, exactly...