TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
These are precarious times. Tragedy seems to lurk behind every corner wielding semi-automatic firearms, gunning down Americans, flushing our streets with violence of unprecedented measures. The people are pitted against those sworn to protect and serve them, blood has been spilled, fear has been spread. In the recent weeks (and years) the situation seems to Read More…
America is sick. Infected by a problem that is killing its people, poisoning its communities, and fueling crime like gas on a fire. And of course, in the true American spirit of things, lots of people are getting really rich at the expense of innocent lives. Heroin is back in America. Like retro sneakers, wayfarer Read More…
In September of 1928 the course of human history was changed, on accident, by a careless lab technician named Alex Fleming, who had just returned from vacation to discover that he had revolutionized the study of medicine. It was the birth of antibiotics. And although it would save countless lives across the Earth over the Read More…
People shuffle in line, zigzagging like cattle, chattering nervously to one another, holding bags and babies, children, loved ones, while up ahead, a squad of federal officers in blue shirts and black pants (both usually bursting at the seams) checks ID’s against boarding passes with powerful scrutiny. They gruffly direct passengers through metal-detectors, run their Read More…
There are few traditions outside the realm of fantasy that are as immoral and contrived as the funding of American presidential campaigns. When election time rolls around corporate mongers all over the world reach into their dark pockets and pull out their beefy wallets, grinning odiously at one another – because, the stage is set. Read More…
Police busting a marijuana grow operation isn’t really news. Not even when they find a barn packed with hundreds of healthy plants, a fat stash of cash and firearms. These things happen every day all over the nation. But when the perpetrator is a 77-year old woman running for congress, the story gains some engrossing Read More…