Will the US finally get universal health care?
I have never hidden my stance on universal health care. I am completely in favor it. What's more, I consider it an atrocity that any western country can have millions of citizens who haven't got basic health care coverage.It looks like the US has finally realized this as well. Obama made it one of his key issues during the election (as did the other Democratic candidates), and has been working hard to get it through since he stepped into office. What's more, every poll shows that the majority of the US population backs his efforts.Now, it looks more likely that this effort will become successful.The US congress has voted

One more strike against a JFK conspiracy
Ever since John F. Kennedy was murdered there have been accusations of a conspiracy with Lee Oswald as the fall guy. At first it was just a small fringe group, but since then, these views have gained more foothold in the mainstream. A major reason for this was Oliver Stone's atrocious 1991 movie JFK

Helping people helping others
Ever so often someone sends me something they thought I might want to share with my readers. Most of the time, it's some kind of money making scheme or something, but on rare occasions, it's actually something worthwhile.Today was one of these occasions.I was made aware of this collaboration between the Clean Air Fund and OneSightOne out of four school children in the U.S. has vision problems, and 86% do not get their vision checked before age 12.Many Fresh Air children do not have access to affordable vision care. Glasses brea

Want to avoid errors? Sleep more
I thought this was pretty well established science, but apparently it's not. A new study has found that sleep deprivation can negatively affect information processing.A study in the Nov.1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that sleep deprivation causes some people to shift from a more automatic, implicit process of information categorization (information-integration) to a more controlled, explicit process (rule-based). This use of rule-based strategies in a task in which information-integration strategies are optimal can lead to potentially devastating errors when quick

The stupidity ... it burns! D'Souza edition
I haven't been posting in a while, so I thought that I would look a little around on the internet, and see if I could find something to write about. I came across a few things, but nothing that really made me think "that'll work". Until I came to an article titled What Really Riles Muslim Extremists? by Dinesh D'Souza. Jackpot.Let the fisking begin.More insurgent bombings in Iraq. More Taliban strikes in Afghanistan. What's up with these people? Just Wednesday, a deadly car bomb exploded in Peshawar, Pakistan, as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in I