I’m starting to think that the Left might actually be right. The above doesn’t pretend to have all the answers. But in light of recent events regarding Rupert Murdoch’s media empire and its manipulation of entire nations, the idea that so-called “Free Market” capitalism isn’t quite what it is advertised [...]

As I write these words, the number of dead is still rising in Norway after a blond-haired Norwegian national set off fertilizer bombs in Oslo’s downtown, then traveled to an island youth camp and killed at least 76 people there. The Labor Party’s offices in downtown Oslo were the apparent [...]

Today, at 83 years of age, Jack Kevorkian died of natural causes. If the irony of that is lost on the reader, a short primer on Kevorkian’s life-long advocacy of — and more controversially, practice of — assisted suicide is in order. This Cornerstone magazine interview by Sarah Sullivan may [...]

And that’s tragic…* pt 1: Racism 101: Why defenses don’t work by Jason Dye (included in Wilson Station with his kind permission) “We have a high percentage of blacks in prison, and that’s tragic, but are they in prison just because they are black or because they don’t want to [...]

New evidence of just how dangerous the sexually transmitted Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) can be continues to pile up. A recent National Cancer Institute study (to be released this week) points out the linkage between HPV and a rise in certain types of throat cancer. Among men, this rise is [...]

Virginity checks, according to CNN and Amnesty International, were conducted against women taking part in March 9 pro-democracy protests in Egypt. Notes Amnesty: When army officers violently cleared Tahrir Square on 9 March – the day after International Women’s Day – 18 women were detained, beaten, given electric shocks, of [...]

Jim Palosaari, who with his first wife Sue founded Jesus People Milwaukee, passed away May 25 of an apparent heart attack. For a brief but fairly thorough account of Jim’s life and influence, see Wikipedia. As news of Jim’s passing spread via face book, those of us who knew him [...]

The tragic weather-related events in Joplin Missouri and elsewhere across the Midwest and South do not lend themselves to simplistic answers… or answers at all? This poem by Denise Levertof seems as close to an answer as we dare go. Our hearts lift up in prayer those suffering.     [...]

And in the totally unbelievably bizarre department, Psychology Today’s website posted (and then — upon being blasted roundly by the masses for it — unposted) the following bit of racist insanity. Warning: what follows is highly offensive racism masquerading as science. We post it to remind ourselves — and our [...]