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 to a […]

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 substantially changed. […]

What do you see?

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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 […]