According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 3 million babies are born each year in the United States. Babies face thousands of threats to their health daily, from sharp corners to the common cold. This September is Baby Safety Month and Peter Champe, owner of Baby Comfy Care, […]
The Wikipedia Convention and Amanda Knox
(London) — This week Wikipedia will hold its 10th annual convention in London, England. Wikimania, as it is known, will probably get about 2,000 visitors from close to 75 countries. The five day event will feature over 150 presentations. One of the most important will examine their Biographies of Living Persons (BLP) policy, which deals […]
Lust and social justice
There is a primitive form of social justice, and an intelligent one. The primitive form is simply the satisfactory feeling that things are right, when those we consider bad persons suffer while we ourselves and our loved ones are happy. The intelligent one is based on the principle of equal rights for every individual to […]
Local Elections in France: The Rise And Rise of Marine Le Pen
This Sunday was Election Day in France. Extremist Front National candidates reached tonight some exceptional scores with between 30 and 45% of the votes in cities such as Béziers, Avignon, Perpignan, Forbach, Fréjus. They reached over 15-25% of the votes in many other cities, including Marseille. One candidate was even elected in the first round […]
Cooked Pasta Sticks on a Grimy Wall
In the aftermath of the repeat first-grade convictions of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito for Meredith Kercher’s murder, Americans might consider cultural aspects that have tainted this case from its sorry, manipulated and blunder-ridden beginnings. Here is a cultural perspective, from the vantage point of a decades-long relationship with Italy and Italians, and living there […]
France: Judgment Day is Nigh! Or is it?
Yesterday was Armistice Day in France, the French Remembrance Day. A day the entire Nation remembers the dead from WWI. A day the entire Nation unites behind the symbol of the Republic: the President. But yesterday, President Hollande was booed during the tribute at the Arc de Triomphe, in Paris, and seventy people with […]
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