Cancer blues

This is a post about cancer. This is a post in honor of all the men, women and children who have died from cancer in the post-industrial age. This is a post that acknowledges, fully, the extent to which American society has led the way in the extermination of these people–these cancer victims. How many [...]

What President Obama and Eve Ensler have in common

President Obama did something really, really good this week.  He sent 100 Special Ops military “advisors” to Central Africa to help local government forces get rid of the Lord’s Resistance Army, a group of crazed, vicious thugs who have been terrorizing people in four countries for as long as many in the region can remember. [...]