Author: lorraine

According to the New York Times, scientists have gone public with their findings regarding fossil evidence that compassion is an evolutionary trait. The toothless skull of an early human ancestor, discovered in the Republic of...

Georgie Porgie Pudding and Pie Kissed the girls and made them cry When the girls came out to play, Georgie Porgie ran away While we were all watching the feeding-tube-and- circuses distractions last week, the Office of Civil...

Tonight, PBS pays tribute to Emma Goldman, one of my personal heroines. And, given the political climate over at PBS these days, I’m thrilled that a woman who told the U.S. government that it was morally bankrupt is having...

[Promoted from the diaries by Susanhbu]The earth will be kindling for end-time Christians; the earth will be destroyed to satisfy big corporations’ greed. What the hell can we tree-hugging, earth-loving progressives do...

Seymour Hersh spoke at Ithaca College (Ithaca NY) last night. SusanHu has asked me to post this here. Okay, per SusanHu’s request, I did take notes furiously. I’m not going to try to make sense of this, but will...