Cultural Commentary: Bushisms
"I'm also not very analytical. You know, I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things." - George W. Bush aboard Air Force One; June 4, 2003I received one of those George W....
View ArticleCultural Commentary: Filling a Need for Quick, Low-Cost Housing
"See a need. Fill a need."This was a catch phrase from the hit animated movie Robots, referring to what inventors do at their most basic level. And this is precisely what Sanford Ponder, founder of...
View ArticleCultural Commentary: Toilets of Terror II
As a sequel to my earlier March 11 post, Toilets of Terror, I noticed that today's Sunday Comics (April 2) has Opus facing a seemingly possessed public toilet with an automatic flush valve. The...
View ArticleCultural Commentary: US Pandemic Simulation
Livescience has a sobering summary of a US avian flu pandemic simulation that has the flu infecting the entire continental US after only 90 days (starting with 10 highly infectious influenza cases in...
View ArticleCultural Commentary: Embracing Inequality to Achieve Equality of Opportunity
And again we have more research results demonstrating differing brain operations between men and women. UC Irvine researchers have reported findings that show the amygdala, a part of the brain...
View ArticleCultural Commentary: What's Impeachable and Why
On the one hand we have a former president for whom impeachment proceedings were instigated as a result of his sexual indiscretion within the walls of the White House. On the other hand we have a...
View ArticleCultural Commentary: Junk Food Education
The April 7th Lawrence Journal-World story entitled “Bill aims to rid schools of junk food options” discusses the problems of junk food in our nation's schools and the recently introduced federal...
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