Skiffle musician inspired Lennon
LONDON (AP) – Lonnie Donegan, a musician whose “skiffle” sound inspired John Lennon and Pete Townshend to learn to play guitar, died Nov. 3 in England at age 71.
Hollywood Reds painted the town
Book Review Radical Hollywood – The Untold Story Behind America’s Favorite Movies! by Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner, New Press, 2002, 460 pp
Global warming and the West Nile virus
Drought and high temperatures don’t just threaten our water supplies and crops. They may help to spread disease. The recent outbreaks of West Nile virus across the United States in the midst of the past summer’s drought are a preview of how a changing climate could threaten our health.
Rehabilitating our prisons
In most aspects of our lives we believe in rehabilitation: all people are capable of improvement. But in our nation’s prison system, generally, attempts at rehabilitation are only made in two major classes of offenders: drug addicts and juvenile offenders.
Coming soon medieval medicine for women
When George W. Bush started pushing his “faith-based” initiatives for the federal government during his election campaign, most folks assumed he meant allowing churches to join traditional charities in providing services to the poor. This made a lot of people in and out of churches nervous – would a down-and-outer have to listen to a government-sponsored sermon before he could get a nightly meal or a place to sleep?
Disaster in the farm belt natural and political
Folks in rural America have been hit hard by two very different kinds of slow-moving disasters over the last two years.
We are all equally American arent we?
After Sept. 11, 2001, in which Americans of every kind (and foreign nationals, too) were indiscriminately targeted for murder, Americans of every kind responded with heroism and compassion and a determination to put forward the best values of America.
