The Christian Science Monitor has a new project called Patchwork Nation on their website.  About the Patchwork Nation project Nearly 305 million people live in the United States, according to the US Census Bureau. Yet in recent elections it’s all been about fitting into two categories: red states that vote Republican and blue states that  Read more »

Today there was a major change in the world that went unnoticed by most Americans.  With all the bad economic news in the last year its easy to grow inured to more bad news.  Today the ever weakening US Dollar has created a new economic world.  For the first time in my lifetime the United  Read more »

The writer is working on his latest book Best-selling fantasy author Terry Pratchett is to donate $1m for research into Alzheimer’s disease. The creator of the Discworld series was diagnosed with a rare early-onset form of the disease in December. Pratchett, 59, announced the pledge of about £494,000 at the Alzheimer’s Research Trust annual conference.  Read more »

I’ve been slow about posting this week because I am sick.  I had a cold that ballooned into bacterial pneumonia.  I’m on antibiotics and stuff and it seems to be helping.   I see the doctor again on Wednesday and may need to get another set of chest x-rays then.  Either way, I expect to be  Read more »

I was looking at the numbers from yesterday’s Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas, and Vermont primaries and I noticed that the trend that I noted in my post called Beyond the Primaries back on February 14th was continuing.  Republicans seem to be sitting out this election.  I know many people may feel that the reason for  Read more »