Today is Tu B’Shvat. “What?”, you say.
Oh, it’s the New Year for Trees. When we recognize the role we play in keeping this world healthy, where we plant trees- or if there are too many, we provide funds to cull the forest to keep it healthy and nourished.
Continue reading Could have been 95
This is going to be a bit depressing. We always thought we could teach people all sorts of things. But, four academics (3 from Princeton, 1 from Columbia, but one of the Princeton profs is also at the Hebrew University) just burst that bubble.
Continue reading We’ve been wrong all these years
You know I talk about dialysis a lot. And, advocate that stem cell research should be allowed.
Not only could we provide an unlimited set of kidneys for transplant, but hearts, lungs, and a slew of other organs. But, stem cell research is disallowed due to politics (read: religious group lobbying).
Continue reading Donate a kidney?
So, yesterday, we went a little gauzy… We waxed poetic about the celebration of Martin Luther King Day, like we’ve solved the problems that Dr. King wanted us to address each and every day. (His two issues – which are still, to more than some degree, intertwined- were racism and poverty. Both of which are blights on the American (and the world’s) ideal.)
You have to love the exquisite lengths Hitler went through to destroy Jewish life.
Continue reading 82 years ago- or was that 2 years ago- or a week ago?
So, Monday, we spoke how younger Americans are clueless about the Holocaust. And, I said that was one of the reasons why Anti-Semitism is on the rise. The other reason is our president, TheDonald. (I wrote about this most recently last year.)
Continue reading Aiding and Abetting
Today is actually Martin Luther King’s birthday. (No, it’s not next Monday. That’s just the convenient choice the government makes to provide a 3 day weekend. [That also coincides with the (racist) holiday that obtained in Virginia for more than a century- the Lee-Jackson day, theoretically celebrating the two Confederate generals, but really promoting the hagiography of the racist South.) Had King not been murdered (and, of course, were still alive), he would be 91 today.
Continue reading He would be 91
Time to break into my queue. Because in the past 10 days, the United States has been hit at least twice by terrorists. Maybe 3 times.
Continue reading Permission Granted
I wasn’t going to do this. And, I’m sorry if you get pissed off that I am- but, I really don’t give a damn when it comes right down to it.
Continue reading Queens Racist
