Bookmarks: The Marty Cobb murder • Climate change • Cat rescues boy from dog • “It takes two to tango.” • “The GOP, running scared”...

Some news sites cracking down on over-the-top comments • Obama suggests sense of powerlessness in confronting the world’s evils • Scary people downtown • An angry young man, and divine intervention

Bookmarks: African issues • Supreme Court prayer decision ———— ♦ ———— Kerry pledges $30 million in aid for Congo elections Researching...

Bookmarks: There’s no humane way to carry out the death penalty. • The focal issue for the midterm elections • U.S. “torture” isn’t new....

Don’t blame college kids for intolerance. Blame us. One gets the impression from Matt Bai’s article that closed-mindedness is something...

Bookmarks: Who failed Relisha Rudd? • I’m in love. • Choosing thoughts, feelings • Names • Animal souls ———— ♦ ———— Jonetta Rose...

(Originally posted 02/23/13 at Trojan Horse Productions . Reblogged 08/23/18 .) Colo. teen heard on 911 call saying he killed girl...

Supreme Court to decide what constitutes pomegranate juice • Free speech means freedom to lie • “I’m not changing my lifestyle.”

Bookmarks: Who pays for Medicare? • Loonies don’t need guns • Parental involvement in education • Struggles of the long-term...

Bookmarks: A gun control hypocrite • “Enhanced interrogation” • Bail reform measure moves forward • Cleaning up McDonald’s • ...

Bookmarks: Michael Jackson “son” hoax • Interspecies altruism • Zookeepers play Mama Bear Screwed up names spell screwed up people...

(Originally posted 05/23/12 at Trojan Horse Productions . Reblogged 03/22/18 .) Some years ago, I was home on vacation (that is,...

Death penalty sought for alleged Boston bomber Tsarnaev A friend of mine, a Lutheran pastor, opposes capital punishment. But to my mind,...

Bookmarks: The flap over eggs • Amanda Knox • Another child star meltdown Child porn is not so simple • Promise for...

“Generations of slavery and discrimination make it difficult for blacks to work their way out of the lower classes.” Do you agree with that statement? If not, you harbor resentment toward blacks. That is the premise, not the conclusion, of a recent study by three political scientists

(Originally posted 2012-07-28 at Trojan Horse Productions. Note that this was after Aurora and prior to Sandy Hook. Reposted 2017-09-21.) I don’t have the wherewithal to actually buy and read newspapers; at the convenience store, I merely read the headlines. I found this article by doing a news Google on “Crofton massacre” — which fact illustrates the point I’ll make below. Police: Md. man made threat, ‘joker’ reference The English word “scandal” comes from the Greek skandal

George F. Will’s 12/21/13 column, “ A dazzling bright future dawns in New Jersey ,” is an infomercial for a fusion energy project. Two...

PLEASE READ THE COMMENTS! Nancy Lanza, a mother tragic and infuriating When I saw the TV news segment on the official report a few nights...

… is that he only offered her $30. Any woman I’d engage gets more than that merely to bat her eyelashes and giggle. In context, this...

But for the racial aspect, the Trayvon Martin case would not be noticed. I admit being less concerned about him than about the dozens of...