What Was New on this Website (Jul-Dec 2011)

 

31 December 2011

 

Even Formerly Respected Police Departments Assist in Weaving Morally Corrupt Falsity — Refusing to Take Crime Reports to Keep Crime Rates Lower than They Actually Are — another Example of Government-Employed Supervisors Intentionally Working against the Public Interest (31 December 2011)

 

30 December 2011

 

Cuisinart DCC-1200 Brew Central 12-Cup Programmable Coffeemaker — Review (30 December 2011)

 

29 December 2011

 

Sneaking Out the Back Door with Its Cowardly Tail between Its Legs — the Food and Drug Administration Declines to Regulate Antibiotic Use in Agriculture, despite Increases in Antimicrobial Drug Resistance that Harms Human Health (29 December 2011)

 

28 December 2011

 

Scientific Honor and Elegance in Physics — when Avarice and Self-Glorification Take a Vacation and Neutrinos Come Out to Play — Some People Who Still Do It the Way It’s “Spozed” to Be Done (28 December 2011)

 

27 December 2011

 

A Spiritual Season Topic — the Moral Disease of Not Giving a Darn — the American Public’s Unconcern with Death and Wounding in Afghanistan — We Can’t Blame It All on the Media (27 December 2011)

 

24 December 2011

 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission Approves Modular Generation III+ Westinghouse AP1000 Reactor — but the Problem of Waste Storage Remains a Critical Societal Obstacle to Its Widespread Use — a Problem that Our Failing Political System Is Unlikely to Overcome (24 December 2011)

 

20 December 2011

 

What’s Secrete “Here” Is Not Secret “There” — How America’s Due Process-Lacking Anti-Terrorist Drone War Is Probably Going to Result in the Reverse of What Was Intended (20 December 2011)

 

19 December 2011

 

Olympus E-PL1 versus Sony NEX3 — Micro-Four-Thirds and APS-C — Review (19 December 2011)

 

17 December 2011

 

People So Irrationally and Determinedly Stupid, It Makes You Want to “Pray” for Them — Mary Elizabeth Williams’ Appropriately Acid Rebuke to the Know-It-All Religionists who Blazened, “I Told You So,” across the Heavens at News of Atheist Christopher Hitchens’ Death (17 December 2011)

 

16 December 2011

 

An Obvious Phenomenon that Most of Us Don’t Recognize Often Enough — the Structural Funneling of Knowledge, including Science and Medicine, through Somebody Else’s Self-Interest and Often Uninformed Opinion Means that “Truth” Is Only Rarely Found (16 December 2011)

 

15 December 2011

 

The Problem with Unregulated Capitalism Is that It Explicitly Dumps the Moral Premises that Arguably Underlie Just Societal Behavior (15 December 2011)

 

14 December 2011

 

Four Psychological Reasons for Why We Defend and Contribute to a Clearly Self-Destructive Political System — Explaining Why the Worse Things Get, the Harder It Seems to Change Them (14 December 2011)

 

13 December 2011

 

Iraq Demonstrates the Unyielding Grasp that the Big Oil/Military-Industrial Complex Has on the World — Most of Us Are Oblivious, even When Our Sons and Daughters Die in Service to Its Grasping (13 December 2011)

 

12 December 2011

 

Bashing the Democratic Party with Cause — Economist Ian Fletcher’s Thoughtful Take on Why the American “Left” Is Ineffectual, when it Comes to Making Sensible Economic Policy (12 December 2011)

 

09 December 2011

 

A Strikingly Accurate Comment and an Implied Question from Dr. Boyce Watkins — Who Are We Now? — Using Presidential Candidate Newt Gingrich to Symbolize Mistaken Spiritual Directions (09 December 2011)

 

08 December 2011

 

Do You Wonder Why the United States Is Struggling Economically? — Take this “Evaporating Brain Infrastructure” Tidbit (08 December 2011)

 

06 December 2011

 

Regarding Columnist Richard Cohen’s Question — In a Nation of 313 Million, How Is it Statistically Possible that Almost All of Our 2012 Presidential Candidates Would Be Such Bad Choices — America’s Flirtation with Self-Destruction (06 December 2011)

 

05 December 2011

 

MediaChance Dynamic Auto-Painter x64 Pro — Review (05 December 2011)

 

02 December 2011

 

“Success Chasing” and “Spurious Beliefs” on the Part of Doctors, and Presumably Other Decision-Makers, Usually Lead to Worse Outcomes — the Value of Paying Attention to Failures in Order to Improve Performance — a Not so “Duh” Insight from a Brain Study (02 December 2011)

 

30 November 2011

 

Pretty Much What I Think — Business Consultant James Moore on Republican Presidential Candidate Jon Huntsman — and Reflections on How Moron-i-Tude Has Destroyed Abraham Lincoln’s Party (30 November 2011)

 

29 November 2011

 

Breathless Reporting about “Bad” Things (Like Fukushima Daiichi’s Escaped Radiation) Is Often Sensationalized due to Ignorance  — Illustrating the Information Problem Posed by Living among “Science Barbarians” (29 November 2011)

 

26 November 2011

 

How to Save Money and Still Have a Good and Artful Time with Digital Photography (26 November 2011)

 

25 November 2011

 

Pepper Spray at UC-Davis Goes Deeper than Just “Police Pigs” Doing Bad Things (24 November 2011)

 

21 November 2011

 

Going Down Exactly the Wrong Road — Provoking China Militarily in the Pacific, while Simultaneously Doing Nothing to Challenge China’s Theft of the American Economy — a Policy that Only a Geopolitical Fool (and a Multi-National Corporate Plutocrat) Would Like (21 November 2011)

 

19 November 2011

 

The Rats Are Back at Play — Representative Charlie Rangel Partied with Democratic Party Leaders at an (as much as) $5,000 per Plate Dinner — Columnist Dana Milbank’s Insightful Take on the Corruption that Is Congress (19 November 2011)

 

18 November 2011

 

President Obama Is Good at Postponing anything that Is Not in His Immediate Political Interest — Conservative Charles Krauthammer Harpoons the President’s Lack of Leadership Courage and Liberal Dylan Ratigan Laments the President’s Lack of Robert Bly’s “Zeus Energy” (18 November 2011)

 

17 November 2011

 

A Sharp Eye for Irony — Journalist Robert Scheer Castigates Billionaire New York Mayor Bloomberg’s Ruse to Cleanse Society of the Occupy Movement — a Lesson in How the American Plutocracy Uses Our Laws against Us (17 November 2011)

 

16 November 2011

 

Vandana Shiva’s Thoughts on “Occupy Wall Street” Capture the Movement’s Meaning — an Overdue Gandhian Perspective on More Equitable Living (16 November 2011)

 

15 November 2011

 

President Obama’s Perennially Cynical Hypocrisy Is Bad for the Nation — Perhaps One of the Republicans’ “Panel of Fools” Would Be a Better Choice in 2012 (15 November 2011)

 

14 November 2011

 

Is Saying Incredibly Dumb Things, in Order to Get Elected, Good for the United States? — the Failure of Representative Government, as the Founders Had Probably Envisioned It (14 November 2011)

 

11 November 2011

 

Veterans Day (11 November 2011)

 

10 November 2011

 

Missing Body Parts at Dover Air Force Base — Displaced Emotion Misdirects Us from Focusing on the Senseless Wars We Start (and Linger in) to What Happens after Our Inexcusable Foolishness Dismembers Our Most Valued People (10 November 2011)

 

 

09 November 2011

 

Another Good Example of “Worse than Useless” American Government — Inadequate Safety Testing of Imported Seafood and the Failure to Document Contaminant Results in a Scientifically Meaningful Way (09 November 2011)

 

07 November 2011

 

Serial Murder in America’s Name — the Immoral Use of Drone Attacks against the Collaterally Innocent — What Happens when U.S. Leadership Goes Paranoidly Mad (07 November 2011)

 

05 November 2011

 

Federal Social Experiments with Human Behavior Don’t Always Work as Intended — Moving Previously Authorized Single-Occupant Hybrid Cars Out of Car Pool Lanes in the San Francisco Bay Area Slowed All Lanes of Traffic — and A Related Observation about Silliness in Government (05 November 2011)

 

04 November 2011

 

U.S. Bigoted Foolishness on Global Display — American Statutes Forced the Administration to Halt UNESCO’s American Funding because the U.N. Agency Admitted Palestine as a Member — the Obama Administration Worsened this Ethically Unattractive Mess by Pretending It’s All the Palestinians’ Fault (02 November 2011)

 

03 November 2011

 

Complexities in Evaluating the Pace of Climate Change — How Will Drying Peatlands Affect the Carbon Cycle? (03 November 2011)

 

01 November 2011

 

Olympus E-PL1 Camera in Subdued Indoor Light — Review (21 October 2011)

 

28 October 2011

 

Facts in the Congressional Budget Office’s Study of Incomes (1979 to 2007) Destroy Plutocratic Justifications for “Trickle Down” — Do Ordinary Americans Really Exist Just to Serve their Increasingly Greedy Plutocrat Masters? (28 October 2011)

 

27 October 2011

 

Well Spoken — an Occupy Wall Streeter Synopsizes the Core Message that Slipped by the Economic Elite, Self-Interested Politicians, and Our Witless Mainstream Media (27 October 2011)

 

BP’s Coming Back and Going Deeper in the Gulf of Mexico — even before It’s Paid Trivial Fines for Its 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster (26 October 2011)

 

26 October 2011

 

Paul Rosenberg’s Interesting Application of the Psychological Concepts of Denial, Displacement, and Projection to the Politics of Recession — Do You Think His Analysis Makes Sense? (26 October 2011)

 

24 October 2011

 

The Intensely Hypocritical Obama Administration Is Now Calling for an Investigation into Libyan Dictator Qaddafi’s Death — after Doing Everything They Could to Make Exactly that Happen (24 October 2011)

 

21 October 2011

 

Astonishing Short-Sightedness — the Problem of Focusing on a Tree, rather than the Forest in American Foreign Affairs — too-Early Pronouncements of Success in Post-Qaddafi Libya (21 October 2011)

 

20 October 2011

 

A Small Chinese Study Demonstrates a Remarkable Elevation in the Risk for Neural Tube Defects, due to Environmental Pollutants’ Effects on Fetal Development — a Reminder of the General Case to Be Made for Government Regulation (20 October 2011)

 

19 October 2011

 

Misperceiving the Quality of One’s Performance (Compared to that of Others) Can Lead to Feelings of Dejection — a Finding that Casts Doubt on the Wisdom of America’s Self-Esteem Movement (19 October 2011)

 

17 October 2011

 

Why Originalism Is an Intellectually Questionable Constitutional Philosophy — and Why Conservatives Are Disingenuous when They Depend on It to Achieve Reactionary Political Positions (17 October 2011)

 

13 October 2011

 

“You’re gonna slam Mormons, when the only two demonstrably intelligent and reasonable candidates in the Republican presidential pack are both Mormons?” — Give Common Sense a Break (13 October 2011)

 

12 October 2011

 

Conflicts of Financial Interest Have Arguably Captured Medicine’s Clinical Practice Guidelines Panels — According to a New Study (12 October 2011)

 

10 October 2011

 

It Is Not that Wealth Is Undesirable — It’s that Our Economic System Is Rigged to Steal Wealth from Many of the People Who Create and Sustain It — a Definitional Difference that Parasitic Plutocrats Don’t Want Us to See (10 October 2011)

 

08 October 2011

 

An Excellent Piece of Analytical Journalism — Scott Wilson’s Essay about “Obama, the Loner President” (08 October 2011)

 

07 October 2011

 

Genetically Altered Canola Is Now Interbreeding with Non-Modified Types in the Environment at Large — the U.S. Department of Agriculture Once Pretended this Would Not Happen (07 October 2011)

 

06 October 2011

 

Predictably Late — Why Tell Someone How Great They Are only after They’re Dead? (06 October 2011)

 

05 October 2011

 

Do Self-Regulated Quality Monitoring Systems in Health Care Work? — One Survey Suggests, “Not Very Well” (05 October 2011)

 

03 October 2011

 

Illustrating One Aspect of Big Pharma’s Grip on Medical Practice — Physicians Writing Prescriptions for Brand Name Statins, Instead of Generic Statins — This Reportedly Costs America $5.8 Billion per Year (03 October 2011)

 

30 September 2011

 

Prostate Biopsies — Rate of Serious Infections Has Risen — Another Example of the Need to Be Aware of Medical Risks (30 September 2011)

 

28 September 2011

 

Terrorist Access to Libyan Shoulder-Fired Missiles — a Predictable Consequence of President Obama’s Foolish Intervention — Bad for the Public and the American Deficit, but Really Good for the Military-Industrial Complex (28 September 2011)

 

27 September 2011

 

Why a Diligent Press Matters — Solyndra’s Loan-Guaranteed Bankruptcy as an Example of Journalism’s Power to Discredit Politicians’ Harmful Untruths (27 September 2011)

 

23 September 2011

 

The Inertia of Indifference — Look No Further to Find Evil (23 September 2011)

 

22 September 2011

 

So Much for Elitists Being Out of Touch — Massachusetts Senatorial Candidate Professor Elizabeth Warren Gutted Republican Arguments (which Solely Favor Plutocrats) in Two Simple and Logically Irrefutable Populist Paragraphs — at Last, Someone Who Actually Thinks (22 September 2011)

 

21 September 2011

 

Relentlessly Evolving Microbial Drug Resistance May Take Us Back to Pre-Antibiotic Days — Other People’s Sexual Liasons Now Affect Everyone’s Vulnerability to Non-Sexually Transmitted Bacterial Diseases (20 September 2011)

 

20 September 2011

 

Misquoting Martin Luther King, Jr. on His Own Memorial — Lies Have apparently become America’s Only Currency (19 September 2011)

 

19 September 2011

 

Future of Nuclear Power Looks Dead — Siemens Quits the Business (19 September 2011)

 

16 September 2011

 

Things Are Often Not What They Seem — an Allegory from Science (Applicable to Politics) about Jumping to Conclusions Based on Too Little Information (16 September 2011)

 

Governor Rick Perry’s Thoughtlessness Is Well Illustrated by His Unthinking Defense of Texas’ Death Penalty Executions (16 September 2011)

 

15 September 2011

 

An Extraordinary Juxtaposition of Concisely-Delivered Brain with Rambling Stupidity — Dr. Zbigniew Brezinski’s Strategic Vision Compared to the Air-Headedness of both Political Parties’ Presidential Candidates (15 September 2011)

 

Could There Be an Opening for Intellect on the Political Right? — After an Earful from Double-Dummies Governor Perry and Representative Bachmann, Neo-Conservative Columnist Jennifer Rubin Wants Smarter Candidates (14 September 2011)

 

14 September 2011

 

Arkel Small Handlebar Bag — Review (14 September 2011)

 

12 September 2011

 

Unsustainable Deep Sea Fisheries Are a Good Example of What We Know Being Overwhelmed by the Tragedy of the Commons (12 September 2011)

 

09 September 2011

 

Walking as Soon as Possible Appears to Shorten Hospital Stays among People 70 and Older (09 September 2011)

 

08 September 2011

 

Medical Authorship Guidelines (Provided by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors) Actually Facilitate Deceptively Presented Medical Research — says Industry Expert, Alastair Matheson (08 September 2011)

 

07 September 2011

 

Radical Prostatectomy May often Defeat Men’s Unrealistic Hopes for Evading Surgical Side-Effects — Says a Small University of Michigan Study (07 September 2011)

 

06 September 2011

 

Michael Brenner Sees America’s Flight from Truth as a Benefit to Quasi-Narcissists like President Obama — Do You Agree? (06 September 2011)

 

General Electric GE Wall Oven Model JTP30 — Review (06 September 2011)

 

01 September 2011

 

Just When We Thought American Politics Could Not Get Worse, President Obama Incomprehensibly Displays Hypocrisy, Indefensible Partisanship, and a Limp Backbone — All in One Trivial, but Telling, Incident (01 September 2011)

 

31 August 2011

 

Doug Bandow’s Intelligently Detailed Criticism of President Obama’s War in Libya — As Good as It Gets (31 August 2011)

 

Another Lesson for the United States from Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Radiation Release — Know and Do Nothing National Government Is Not the Way to Go (31 August 2011)

 

30 August 2011

 

What It’s Really Like in Many of America’s Schools — Ex-Teacher John Owens’ Entertaining Essay about Bureaucratic Smothering and the Flight of Discipline and Common Sense (30 August 2011)

 

29 August 2011

 

General Electric GE Side by Side Refrigerator GSH25 —  Review (29 August 2011)

 

26 August 2011

 

New Study Highlights Misleading Pharmaceutical Research — the High Prevalence of Scientifically Meaningless Endpoints and Deliberately Confusing Risk Analysis (26 August 2011)

 

25 August 2011

 

A Good Example of Medical and Environmental Mystery — Disappearing Malaria Mosquitoes and the Paradoxical Concern for Children’s Future Health (25 August 211)

 

More Foolishness from the Media and the Politicians that Play to It — Too Early Pronouncements that President Obama Was Right to Start a War in Libya (24 August 2011)

 

24 August 2011

 

Increasingly Dilapidated San Francisco Represents a Microcosm of American Decline — Stephan Richter’s Non-Partisan Essay Is Worth Reading for the Causative Themes it Weaves (23 August 2011)

 

23 August 2011

 

General Electric GE Dishwasher Model GLD4560 N10SS — Review (22 August 2011)

 

22 August 2011

 

General Electric GE Cooktop Model JP346 (JP340, JP356, JP655) — Review (22 August 2011)

 

19 August 2011

 

How a Responsible Political Grown-Up Talks — Former Treasury Official Bruce Bartlett Speaks about the Economy and the Federal Reserve Board, after Texas Governor Rick Perry Demagogically Spouts Off about the Fed Chairman’s Alleged Treason (19 August 2011)

 

18 August 2011

 

A Radiation Exposure Health Disaster Is Apparently beginning to Play Out in Japan — a Lesson for the United States about Integrity in Government (18 August 2011)

 

17 August 2011

 

“Some Things Ya Ain’t Gonna Find Out” — Investigative Reporter Russ Baker’s Analysis regarding Unreliable Reporting about Osama bin Laden’s Execution — and the Role of Truth-Discovering Media in a Free Society (17 August 2011)

 

An Example of Peruvian Peasant Democracy that Apparently Shames Our Own — Rodrigo Vazquez’ Short Documentary Captures the Early 21st Century’s Most Important Themes — Poverty, Habitat Destruction, and Partial Solutions in the Form of Democracy and the Empowerment of Women (17 August 2011)

 

16 August 2011

 

A Genetically Engineered Vaccine against Chikungunya Fever Shows Promise in Laboratory Mice — the Research Illustrates apparently Sound Scientific Reasoning and Methods — but It Serves Equally Well as a Warning regarding the Potentially Distorting Effect of Financial Self-Interest in Medicine (16 August 2011)

 

15 August 2011

 

A Good Analogy Can Explain Someone’s Point of View in a Persuasive Way — a Clever Metaphor about the Debt Crisis from Robert Reich (08 August 2011)

 

13 August 2011

 

Eating Processed Red Meat Every Day Apparently Increases the Risk for Developing Type 2 Diabetes by 51 Percent — according to a Large Study by the Harvard School of Public Health (12 August 2011)

 

12 August 2011

 

Jamie Doran’s Short Documentary, Africa Rising, Examines an Apparently Successful Ethiopian Self-Help Project that May Have Implications for Other Places, including the United States (11 August 2011)

 

11 August 2011

 

Another Example of Medicine Getting It Wrong with Deadly Effects — Contrary to Previously Accepted Medical Practice, Young African-American Patients Do Significantly Worse than Whites on Kidney Dialysis — the Power of Asking the Right Questions (10 August 2011)

 

10 August 2011

 

People Saying One Thing, then Doing the Opposite — an Accepted Cultural Pattern of Lying that’s Going to Sink Us (10 August 2011)

 

09 August 2011

 

Where We Are Now, a Striking Contrast — on the One Hand, an Exploding Helicopter Filled with Duty, Honor, Courage, Integrity, Teamwork, and the Sad Misfortune of War — on the Other, a Congress and President Characterized by Avoidance, Dishonor, Cowardice, Lie-Telling, Self-Dealing, and Outrageously Inequitable Personal Comfort  (09 August 2011)

 

Don’t Count on the Wealthy to Be Generous or Helpful, says a University of California Study — if True, the Findings Have Profound Political and Economic Implications (09 August 2011)

 

08 August 2011

 

We Really Should Be Wondering about Our Society’s Sanity — Giving Standard & Poor’s, a Private Entity with Self-Interested Economic and Political Aims, an Unopposed Platform from which to Rate the United States’ Credit Worthiness (08 August 2011)

 

06 August 2011

 

Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s Washington Post Report about the 1950s “Little America/Lashkar Gah” Project in Afghanistan Captures the Futility of Attempting to Change a Culture that Doesn’t Want to Change (06 August 2011)

 

05 August 2011

 

A Year after BP’s Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, the American Media Mostly No Longer Bothers to Report the Aftermath — but Al Jazeera Does, and Its News Is Not Good (05 August 2011)

 

03 August 2011

 

Blodgett Peak (Colorado Springs) — A Cautionary Advisory for Hikers with Joint Disease, Joint Replacements, or Neuromuscular Deficiencies (03 August 2011)

 

Blodgett Peak (Colorado Springs) Route Guide Links (03 August 2011)

 

29 July 2011

 

The Republican Party Has become so Destructively Extreme, and the President so Strategically Inept, that One Wonders If Anyone in America Is Going to Wake Up Enough to Grip Reality —  the Irony of the Tea Party’s Partial Correctness (29 July 2011)

 

27 July 2011

 

By the Language of Fools Shall Ye Know Them (27 July 2011)

 

26 July 2011

 

Taking Responsibility Is Characteristic of Genuine Leaders — Last Night, President Obama and Speaker Boehner Tried to Avoid Responsibility by Blaming “Washington” for the Nation’s Woes (26 July 2011)

 

25 July 2011

 

When None of Our Political Leaders Say Reliably True Things, How Is the Public Supposed to Have Reasonable Opinions about What to Do? — Raising the Debt Ceiling and Attacking the Deficit (25 July 2011)

 

21 July 2011

 

In Wrong-Headed Wars, When Do a Nation’s Broken Promises become Its Citizens’ Personal Shame? — Abandoning the Foreign Locals Who Helped Us in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Vietnam (21 July 2011)

 

20 July 2011

 

Does a Gilt-Edged Education (and Newly Attained Privileges) Make It More Likely that a Politician Will Ultimately Prove to Be a Wimpy Sell-Out? — There May Be a Valid Gut Reason Why So Many Working Americans Detest Elitists (20 July 2011)

 

19 July 2011

 

The Price of Habitual Political Lying Is that People Eventually Won’t Believe Anything You Say, even When You Resort to Telling the Truth — the President’s Lack of Credibility with Many Americans Has Hampered His Effort to Raise the Debt Ceiling (19 July 2011)

 

18 July 2011

 

Inventing Bogus Mental Illnesses and Drugs for Profit — the Pharmaceutical Industry and the Self-Interested Physicians Who Help It Lie (18 July 2011)

 

15 July 2011

 

Columnist Dana Milbank Praises Republican Senator Rob Portman (Ohio), a Man Trying to Walk in Senator Robert Taft’s Admirable Shoes — a Story Illustrating that Who We Pick as Heroes Reflects Who We Are and (Sometimes) Who We Will Become (15 July 2011)

 

14 July 2011

 

Small Picture National Security Concerns Sometimes Go too Far, Damaging Larger American Interests — the CIA’s Alleged Bogus Vaccination Program in Pakistan (14 July 2011)

 

11 July 2011

 

California’s New Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge Is Being Manufactured in China — How’s that for a Sign of Depressing American Times? (11 July 2011)

 

08 July 2011

 

Courteous Competence and Genuine Helpfulness Can Become Successful Small Business Models in an Age of Deliberate Deception and Intentional Sub-Mediocrity (08 July 2011)

 

03 July 2011

 

An Eloquently Brief Statement regarding the National Condition from Marian Wright Edelman, President of the Children’s Defense Fund — This Fourth of July, Nothing Need Be Added (02 July 2011)

 

02 July 2011

 

I Do Not Think that President Kennedy Would Have Approved of Taking NASA Out with the Trash — the United States’ Lost Sense of Purpose Cuts Us Deeply (02 July 2011)

 

01 July 2011

 

The United States Government Exhibits an Increasingly Casual Disregard for Examining the Morality of War — Being Top Dog Seems to Have Come at the Price of Weakening Our Ethical Integrity (01 July 2011)