What is a rock in the shape of a penis doing on the White House lawn?

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Tuesday, June 14, 2011 

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Kids climb a rock wall during a Let's Move! South Lawn Series event on the South Lawn of the White House,… Read full post »

The need for free national dental insurance for national oral health is at a crisis point in the United States. And many dentists have responded to volunteer their services to meet that need.

Here are some pro bono dentistry services for people without dental insurance. The providers are in the… Read full post »

My first introduction to organized banking as a criminal enterprise came in Boston when I was a student at English High School.  I was lucky my junior year to make National Honor Society, achieving  all A's at the end of the year, thanks to my mother a/… Read full post »

 

One day out of curiosity, I asked ABCD how did he, a mere high school senior with no job, living in an apartment in Roxbury, finance his expensive art books, his large library room, its walls lined with books, his expensive Great Books collection,… Read full post »

 You never know what to expect traveling through the dense woods of northern Maine on the truck route called the Airline Highway.

 Normally I don’t pick up hitch hikers, but April lightning storms had struck the American-Canadian border town where I… Read full post »

The Prime Minister of Israel's speech to a joint session of Congress May 24 demonstrates masterful rhetoric: the flourishes ("Israel has no better friend than America. And America has no better friend than Israel."), and the telling pauses and unanswered questions: " So why has peace not been achieve… Read full post »

Interesting isn't it? Simply taking a collective vow to poverty, you can live a happy life free of wants, as the nun, a sister of ......,  explained to me when I met her in Tunis. A  member of the order of nuns, she had lived to a healthy… Read full post »

 An Aztec priest in the Spanish chronicles of the Conquest sacrificed a beloved daughter of an enemy to wear her flayed skin as a robe. Her face, he wore as a ritual mask. Whether human sacrifice meant that our ancestors were actually toying with implant surgery, we know tha… Read full post »

 Snowy nights take me to the shortest night of the year, In the Port City on The Bay of Fundy, in the Speakeasy, a Chicago pirate, my Sicilians,My French, my failed accents to a girl speaking English: A Jurassic Mafiosi, smitten, cold as my bootleg hooch:Vanqu… Read full post »

  Is reincarnation really possible, beyond the duplication of someone’s DNA in stem cells from the dead to recreate the dead person’s body? Would that reincarnation ever be anything more than the identical twin, a clone, except a person with a separate mental identity unl/… Read full post »

Osama Bin Laden was fatally stupid to assume that the United States would respect international laws of diplomacy and territorial integrity of his safe haven in Abbottabad, Pakistan. He foolishly believed that we would observe diplomatic scruples that he disdained in his 9/11 attack. His attitude was… Read full post »

 Who got the reward money from the United States for killing him?

At the least, the identification of the tipster who provided information to the United States that led to Osama Bin Laden's demise would answer the question whether Pakistani officials also concealed his hiding place in Abbottabad… Read full post »

President Obama may never decide to reverse his decision to release a photo to the world of the corpse of Osama Bin Laden. At the least, however, he ought to have shown it to families of the 9/11 victims. But not releasing the photo was also the wrong decision for a… Read full post »

Photo credit Copyright © , 2010, Carl Senna

If Talley had been a woman, men would have said that he had the face that launched a thousand ships, he was just that good looking, in a kind of universal standard of male beauty. Had he been young after the Civil… Read full post »

Pharonic Monumental Statues, Luxor, Egypt 1998 :Photo Credit: Carl Senna 

Religious news seems to rear its head everywhere before national elections. Atlanta's Bishop Eddie Long's New Birth Missionary Baptist Church thrashes in lawsuits alleging illicit sexual relationship… Read full post »

 

But in our attempt… Read full post »

Nearly 28,000 innocent civilians and hundreds of police and armed security forces have been slain by drug criminals in the past several years in Mexico, one third of them victims in the past 2 years.  

Since Mexico's former President Vicente Fox abolished the death penalty on Dece… Read full post »

Capital punishment has never been so popular, it seems, as it is today. And the arguments against it have seldom been more insistent. I wish to propose yet another argument against capital punishment, tempered by the need for an alternative to capital punishment, not a denial of the need for s… Read full post »