While I applaud the intent of the National Alliance on Mental Illness’s effort to “grade” the 50 states in the U.S. on their mental health care, the problem with such reports is that they are out-of-date and virtually useless from the moment they are published. The problem with the...

“Demonstrating that not even weekends are safe from Democratic Party-sponsored anti-Rush Limbaugh attacks,� Brian Maloney observed on the Radio Equalizer blog on Saturday, “the talk titan is now under fire for a relatively mundane (and actually quite accurate) reference to the shameless politi...

Ellen Goodman of the Boston Globe started off her column on March 6 with the exact same feeling about the current Obama/Limbaugh feud that I at first had: I wasn't going to talk about it either. But after reading her column of distortions and outright lies about Limbaugh -- as well as the ever prese...

Reproduction of Henry David Thoreau and his cabin on Walden Pond in Concord, MA The past month or so, I’ve have been hearing a curious groundswell of an idea: that our Anywhere vision of ubiquitous connectivity is a bad idea and harmful to our society. The chorus started in an article by Willi...

The most important thing to keep in mind while reading this Boston Globe article, is that it would never have been written six months ago. Why? Because at that time the "evil" Republicans controlled the White House and unemployment would have been portrayed as grim. However, now that Barac...

by Walter Brasch In May 2004, the New York Times, while claiming it was aggressive in pursuing stories about the Bush–Cheney Administration, slipped in an apology for acting more as the mouthpiece for politicians than as a watchdog for society. “Coverage was not as rigorous as it should have bee...

Midweek Mental Greening Last week, I told you about a Boston Globe article that discussed the negative mental health effects global warming is having on some people, and promised you some tips on how to deal with those kinds of effects – whether the issue is global warming, poverty, animal rights ...

Kat Powers, editor at the Somerville Journal, reads Globie Geoff Edgers's piece about second jobs - in which he spends a day on a UPS truck and then another as a fast-food cashier to see how the other half lives - and begs of you: Dear reader, please kick my butt if I ever write anything like the el...

. WHAT DOES COPYRIGHT MEAN, ANY MORE? WHEN EVERYTHING IS AVAILABLE FREE ONLINE, HOW CAN ANYONE CLAIM TO OWN ANYTHING? Creative Commons And The NY Times Decide Our Fate: Will It Be Love Or Money? Much as we all love downloading free movies and music, porn and software, and browsing the libraries and ...

. WHAT DOES COPYRIGHT MEAN, ANY MORE? WHEN EVERYTHING IS AVAILABLE FREE ONLINE, HOW CAN ANYONE CLAIM TO OWN ANYTHING? Creative Commons And The NY Times Decide Our Fate: Will It Be Love Or Money? Much as we all love downloading free movies and music, porn and software, and browsing the libraries and ...