The Girl Scouts in several states are recalling batches of Lemon Chalet Crème cookies because they taste a little funny. The manufacturer, also sometimes known as a baker, says the cookies are safe but “may contain oils that are breaking…
The Girl Scouts in several states are recalling batches of Lemon Chalet Crème cookies because they taste a little funny. The manufacturer, also sometimes known as a baker, says the cookies are safe but “may contain oils that are breaking…
The local Pittsburgh media has reported about a young lady at one of the branches of the Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC) recently registered a new campus organization, the CCAC branch of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus. Yes,…
Every once in a while, I feel the need to do some blog house-cleaning. Let’s start with the windows. The blog has been getting a lot of comments lately, so I thought I should tell readers how we handle them: …
The Associated Press reported yesterday afternoon that “President Barack Obama signed an order Thursday unilaterally creating a bipartisan commission to rein in unruly deficits after Congress rejected a similar body with considerably more enforcement power. As I have said a…
Earlier this week I proposed that by limiting everyone to one child each, in less than a century we could bring the world population down to 500 million, thereby ending both environmental and economic problems. One reader asked quite aptly…
Today let’s go big picture and look at some pressing global problems and my conceptually simple solution to them: As Nobel Prize laureate Joseph Stiglitz points out, in the U.S. and worldwide, we face an excess of productive capacity that…
A lot of wishful thinking goes on in articles that purport to be news. I’m talking about the kind of article that speculates that a trend is forming that will be positive to the interests of the U.S. But when…
The people who make advertising decisions for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) must either have a sick sense of humor or an unconscious desire to admit that they’ve twisted the purpose of the food pyramid from helping people…
Which publications would be considered more representative of the so-called liberal and leftwing leanings of the mainstream news media than New Yorker and the New York Times? Yet both persist in giving enormous coverage to the Tea Party, much more…
National Public Radio has hopped on the media bandwagon of advocates of just walking away from a house that’s underwater, i.e., worth less than the mortgage. NPR aired a story this morning that justified and gave credence to the view…
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