Children in many parts of England are not getting adequate protection against abuse, the government will admit today after an inquiry into child safeguarding services following the Baby P tragedy. Ed Balls, the children's minister, is expected to accept proposals in a 100-page report from Lord Lamin...

Des offres alléchantes sont souvent proposées lors de foires d’exposition. Mais les contrats conclus dans ce cadre là peuvent parfois tourner à l’aigre. C’est ce qui est arrivé à l’un de nos auditeurs, qui a versé un acompte pour s’assurer de l’acquisition d’appareils ménagers....

Comment is Free today published my piece on Chas. Freeman’s withdrawal.  I wanted to expand on a few points in it.  The NY Times characterizes Aipac’s Josh Block as saying the following about the group’s involvement in the anti-Freeman campaign: Joshua Block, a spokesman for the ...

• Texan facility staff filmed one-on-one fistfights• Abuse allegations extend concern to federal level Workers at a Texan state facility that provides support for people with "severe or profound mental retardation" have been found to have been running a fight club between patients and videoing t...

"The electric things have their life too. Paltry as those lives are." - Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? OXFORD, Ohio (ZP) -- Somewhere in time, on some drunken night of mayhem, he'd shattered his iPhone against a brick wall. Chunks of ancient red dust from some ...

Family Guy – talk about a misnomer. The animated Fox television series crossed sexual, moral and religious boundaries on Sunday evening when it aired content inappropriate for its young target audience. The controversial material was not limited to one subject, or isolated in a single scene. Image...

with Harrison Beillor     LISTEN The Whispering Cloud by Guy Bouchard I lied on my back in the front yard Watching a Cloud. I thought it was a nice Cloud It was a puffy Cloud Until it whispered to me… It said, Why the hell are you lying there looking at me? Who are you to judge me? Who are ...

Well, our array of omnipresent blinking gadgets has officially rendered us totally incapable of normal human action. The proof: David Prager, whose reaction to having his home broken into was to Twitter about it: No words for this. I mean, no words. We present the entire feed as it occurred: # ok, m...

Here's another article about the disastrous state of the housing market in the U.S., describing what's been going on in Cleveland, Ohio. It's a seriously depressing article, showing just how far downhill things have gone, and just how hard it's going to be to get out of this mess.As early as 2000, a...

Several years ago, a friend of mine gave me a book for my birthday called Thought Contagion. I had not heard of the book or its subject matter, the science of memetics, but I was fascinated by what I read. Author Aaron Lynch explained, concisely and convincingly, how some of the most significant bel...