Reported by Pakistan Family Forum ISLAMABAD, June 28: The Supreme Court on Thursday granted bail to a ‘same-sex’ couple and suspended a verdict handed down by the Lahore High Court. The high court had declared the marriage un-Islamic and sentenced the two to three years in jail. Accepting their appeal, a bench of the Supreme [...]

A 13-year-old’s award-winning essay suggests the die-off comes from feeding them too much corn syrup and trucking them long distances to pollinate crops. By john darling for the Mail Tribune June 19, 2007 If the prize-winning 4-H essay of an Applegate boy is anywhere near the mark, the die-off of bees in the Rogue Valley [...]

Friends, Rather than posting photos here once and a while, I have posted some over at Flickr. I hope you will take a moment or two, poke around a bit, and perhaps even leave a comment or two. I look forward to seeing them. Thanks, Jock

Today’s Sunday NY Times lead editorial reports on The Democrats Lag on Warming, but does not ask why. I suggest that editorial misses the key meta issue: We need to build our new, post 20th century nation on new models. Rebuilding the old 20th century US would be a large mistake. It is what brought [...]

Dr. Farooq Hasan has a new editorial essay in The Nation. This government’s abrupt and seemingly ruthless behaviour towards the Chief Justice of Pakistan has triggered such a velocity of political agitation against the military rule as never seen in the past in Pakistan. Indeed nowhere in recent history has a third world country seen [...]

Michael Fraase has blogged on David Isenberg’s excellent SMART Letter #100. David Isenberg has me convinced that the telecommunications and cable companies are structurally and philosophically incapable of network neutrality—the prohibition of “any service that privileges, degrades, or prioritizes any packet… based on its source, ownership, or destination.” He sums this up nicely: “Netheads want [...]