Hurricane Sandy has added a strong exclamation point to an "inconvenient truth" - it's time to stop playing games of profit and politics with the future of our planet, and get serious about ending the ongoing damage done by human activity.... [More]

A republish from a site that is now 404. After hearing so many times that if taxes were only lower, private charity would take up social welfare, I decided to examine the numbers and see how that plays out in the real world. I was prepared to find out I was wrong in my believe that this is a myth. Turns out, I wasn't.... [More]

JH takes a quick look at the major points of the recent debt deal between the Obama administration and the Republican party.... [More]

The myth that Ron Paul is a friend to idealistic young people needs to be ended. He's not - especially if you believe in things like equality across ethnic groups, genders, and sexual orientations. Ron Paul is not your friend, and neither his is spawn, no matter how many times they push the "legal pot" button to distract people from their actual ideology and behavior.... [More]

Hitting a couple of subjects and tying them together here; first, dissatisfaction with the Obama administration's approach to solving the problems with public education. Second, dissatisfaction with a "compromise" approach to negotiating with the right that seems more like all concession by the left while the right yields nothing.... [More]

Pulling the facade off of Randite social darwinism.... [More]

A conversation about electricity leads to a polemic on the way democracy is failing the people and why we still don't have universal health care in the richest country on earth.... [More]

A few thoughts about how people look at people.... [More]