Today's news? I'm still figuring out what happened last year!
Just the kind of investigative reporting we need (photo NY Times, from start Trump term). News coverage of this crisis is typical: wall-to-wall reporting of a small number of facts over and over again, giant ....
Maybe now that all the restaurants have been closed by the pandemic, you are doing some more cooking. I don't have very strong opinions about recipes, but I have strong opinions about how they should ....
Now What? Benjamin finds peace in solitude, 2010. Now that health experts have convinced governments world-wide to encourage/enforce "social distancing", some uncomfortable questions appear. How much social distance is enough? No school? No meetings of ....
PDF version of chartDownload 19 Mar 2020 update: Chart was updated based on email exchanges with the three experts who supplied the original answers. See bottom of this post for earlier version of chart. Dr. ....
High Resolution PDF of ChartDownload Because the abortion debate often focuses on abortions relatively late in a pregnancy, it is easy to get the mistaken impression of the circumstances of a typical abortion. As the ....
The chance of dying from coronavirus is hard to know because iffy numbers go into the calculation. I believe that the number of people who die is kept track of pretty closely in the US ....
Some facts to keep in mind next time you hear a discussion of Bernie Sanders' statements in the 1980s about cold war opponents: The World Court ruled against the US for its military aggression against ....
Barry A. Klinger, November 2016 Senators representing the 600,000 inhabitants of Wyoming have the same number of votes as the senators representing the 37 million in California, because the United States Senate gives every state ....
Barry A. Klinger, 28 December 2019 benjaminOzDownload PDF Version Concerned that my son Benjamin didn’t find The Wizard of Oz wonderful enough, I got him to watch it with me again. Benjamin: I already saw ....
The Republican campaign to demonize Hillary Clinton's actions after the attack on a US facility in Benghazi, Libya is a good case study of a largely false narrative being effectively used for political gain. Here ....