Two days after Hurricane Katrina engulfed the Gulf Coast with wind, water and debris, the situation in many areas, including New Orleans, is chaotic and growing more grim all the time. (City of New Orleans) Today New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin said hundreds, and possibly thousands, in the city were …
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Most Mothers Happy, Peppy and Bursting With Love, Per New Survey
Despite recent grim characterizations in popular culture such as ABC’s smash Desperate Housewives and Judith Warner’s popular book Perfect Madness, the latter of which posits modern motherhood as “an endless sea of child-enriching activities” leading into “a well of despair,” a new survey finds that an overwhelming majority of mothers …
Read More »Family Values Make Strange Bedfellows
Maybe I missed the psalm or parable that preaches the end justifies the means...
Read More »E. M. D. R.: Leave The Past Behind
E.M.D.R. offers a means to find your way clear of a past that could be crippling your future.
Read More »The man to ultimately blame for Wal-Mart
He became known as the "Universal Provider" - a merchant who claimed to sell anything to anybody.
Read More »Katrina – Disaster and Relief
Though New Orleans was spared from some of the worst that had been feared for it by Hurricane Katrina, the Big Easy still suffered greatly and other Gulf regions are even worse off. “The devastation down there is just enormous,” Mississippi governor Haley Barbour said this morning on NBC’s Today …
Read More »Coffee, Tea, and Antioxidants
I'm not up to six yet(cups of coffee) and I don't think I should play around with something as dangerous as type two diabetes.
Read More »Blogcritics On Hurricane Katrina
Cryin’ won’t help you, prayin’ won’t do you no good, Now, cryin’ won’t help you, prayin’ won’t do you no good, When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move. (“When the Levee Breaks” Led Zeppelin) Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast on the morning of August 29 – there …
Read More »Hurricanes, Humans, and Hubris
...what are you going to do when there's nothing left to have dominion over except a lot of desert.
Read More »This Machine Kills Fascists
You can call George Bush a mysogynist, a homophobe, a xenophobe, or a warmonger to your heart's content, but for all that, he is not a fascist.
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