CommonSense2 February, 2012 – Issue # 48
Julie Edgar is passionate. So are most activists, you might say. She is smart. So are most activists. She is able to step back and see the big picture –…
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Making A Difference: Meet Julie Edgar
Julie Edgar is passionate. So are most activists, you might say. She is smart. So are most activists. She is able to step back and see the big picture –she…
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PROGRESS IS (?) A COMFORTABLE DISEASE
Stephen Hawking (author of A Brief History of Time) a few weeks ago advised his fellow earth-dwellers to begin probing the sky for another planet with livable conditions much like…
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Outsourcing America’s Health Care
“Ola, Amigo! Pack your bags; we’re going to Mexico!” bubbled Dr. Franklin Peterson Comstock III, faux physician and money-maker. “Yeah, I could use a decent vacation,” I replied, figuring he’d…
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The Pick Ax : Taking on the Right Wing
I was reading an excerpt on amazon.com of Donald Kahneman’s new book, Thinking Fast and Slow. Mr. Kahneman, a respected psychologist, states that decades ago sociologists felt that humans were…
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Deborah Rogers on the Economics of Fracking, February 2nd in Kutztown
Deborah Rogers, founder of the Energy Policy Forum, will speak on the economics of unconventional natural gas drilling at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Kutztown at 7 p.m. on February…
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Shall We Dance?
Watching the Republican presidential candidates’ debates has been perversely entertaining. It is fascinating to observe the verbal pirouette of politicians trying to distance themselves from their former incarnations. Particularly guilty…
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Occupy Reading Occupies the Court
In a 5-4 decision on January 21, 2010, the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of Citizens United v Federal Election Commission, ruled that the First Amendment…
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At His Graveside in East Berlin
I say you were a beast of burden touched in your brain by the most unequivocal hardships, rock bottoms and abrasive insects with stingers as lethal as the points of…
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Connecting the Dots: The Marcellus Natural Gas Play Players – Part 3
When people of liberal persuasion talk in generalities about the “powers that be”, those of conservative bent, Republicans and Democratic apologists roll their eyes and act if they are in…
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