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I have posted before on sex-offender laws, and the issue was reopened for me by an article from the Economist. Below are the high points, though I highly recommend the whole article. Again, our American-style of harsh penalties and zero-tolerance clauses is resulting in not only an unforgiving national culture, but perhaps, and more importantly, [...]

I have posted before about school lunch, but here is an opportunity to help! For the month of September a donation of any amount will not only go towards their Slow Food in School Program, but also gets you member in Slow Food USA (usually $60). Use this as an opportunity to our schools where [...]

Since 1976 (when the Supreme Court reversed its 1972 decision to ban the death penalty in the US), there have been “more than a hundred and thirty people on death row have been exonerated.” There are heinous crimes for which I would have a hard time arguing against the death penalty (I doubt you will [...]

This recent quote from MR: About 10 percent of infants die in their first year of life in Africa — still shockingly high, but considerably lower than the European average less than 100 years ago, let alone 800 years past. And about two thirds of Africans are literate — a level achieved in Spain only [...]