On the Passing of Sen. Edward Kennedy
In 1962, Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a single game. It was the year that Marvel Comics debuted both Spiderman and the Incredible Hulk, Marilyn Monroe overdosed on sleeping pills and The Beatles released “Love Me Do.” But on November 7, 1962, Sen. Edward “Ted” Kennedy was sworn into his brother’s former Senate seat, and [...]
For Neda, We Will Not Be Silent
Protests in Iran erupted into violence over last week’s election results that supported incumbant Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over moderate Mir Hussein Moussavi, pitting reformists against those who support the establishment and causing the death of at least 13 people. One of those people, a woman known only by the name “Neda,” has become the most recent symbol [...]
Albino Picnic Basket Theif Threatened by Fossil Fuels
As if the human race had not gone far enough in endangering pandas, and completely eliminating the dodo, now it seems we are hell-bent on the destruction of the gentle (well, almost) polar bear. We seem to be up to our old tricks again, this time providing a slow, painful death to a creature not [...]
