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Archive for September, 2005

Fascists on their heels (There’s still hope)

Wednesday, September 28th, 2005

This does not mean that I am comparing my home (America) to Nazi Germany or Mussolini’s Italy. I would also like to point out that fascism does not equal Nazi Germany or Mussolini’s Italy. What I am saying is that we currently have a government acting under the influence of fascism.

September in Newark

Tuesday, September 27th, 2005

Newark awakes to a beautiful sunny September day. She knows its morning because the planes are lining up in her airways and the trains take the outskirted people to her big sister across the river. Shes hurting inside for all the forgotten souls that fill her. She hears the wounding sounds and […]

Pod Sweet Pod

Thursday, September 22nd, 2005

he pod is pretty interesting though. A pretty good business (for now) I guess. It’s pretty cheaply thrown together with some 2 x 4s and some ply wood and a cheap lock.

Book Extract - Vioxx, COX-2 Inhibitors and…You know what’s coming…The Global War on Terror

Wednesday, September 21st, 2005

Extracted from The Truth About Drug Companies – How They Deceive Us And What To Do About It by Marcia Angell, M.D. (former editor in chief of The New England Journal of Medicine.
Referring to the FDA’s public hearings determining whether or not COX-2 Inhibitors should remain on the market (Vioxx is a COX-2 Inhibitor):
Some of […]

10 Dollars a Gallon Saved the Planet

Wednesday, September 14th, 2005

That is because humans are procrastinators and not necessarily inclined to greatness. We need motivation and when you’re talking about millions of people the motivation has to be huge.

Photo Absurdity #6

Friday, September 9th, 2005

This is a bar on the edge of Kampala, Uganda in Eastern Africa. Jennifer and Terri have been there. I saw it from the window of a bus on a return trip from Rwanda.