Monthly Archive for May, 2008

What's buried in 71-year-old McCain medical records?

Author: Jim Warren It’s often said about “open” government, that the best way to hide something is to bury it in a mountain of “public” records. Regarding John McCain’s everso-brief “disclosure” of his medical records, CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta reported, “… At promptly 7:30 a.m. PT [on Friday beginning a holiday weekend], we were taken [...]

We have lost our humanity

By: George Kamburoff Author’s preface: After 40 years of retrospection, I decided it was time to question the hero worship we give most recently to those who join the military, so I started writing, driven by my own experiences in the war of my generation. No newspaper would print the letter below, unless it was [...]

What do you see?

Corner swamp 671, originally uploaded by Jock Gill. What do you see in the photograph above? I suggest we primarily “act” on what we “see”. Errol Morris posits that what we “see” is largely informed by what we “believe”. If this line of reasoning is correct, then, to change how we “act”, we must change [...]