You would think that after so many women have been heads of state of so many countries for over fifty years, it would be considered only slightly noteworthy for the US to have a female head of state. The fact that people think it would be such a big step only indicates how backward US politics is.
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After procrastinating for some time, I downloaded the new Mavericks (aka, v. 10.9) of the Mac operating system. In general, the transition seems to have been smooth but there has been an odd quirk with respect to mail in that I am now being flooded with porn spam.
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Congressman Steve King of Iowa, one of those heartland people who is trying hard to preserve traditional values against the steady encroachment by the godless, has uncovered the deep and long game played by the gay community to get rich at the expense of hard-working, god-fearing regular Americans.
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We all know that the central and southern states are where the real, god-fearing ‘Merkins live, those who uphold the good old-fashioned virtues of independence and hard work, unlike the heathens in the rest of the country with their lazy and hedonistic values.
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I am not an early adopter of new technology. I tend to wait until I am sure that I really need or want it and often the new technology, like the mountain with Mohammed, comes to me without my seeking it, by becoming the default.
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Jessica Williams explores a disturbing new trend where racism seems to have spread to the most unlikely sources.
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Dr. John Michael Lonergan spent time in prison in Ohio for tax evasion, mail fraud, and healthcare fraud in Ohio and lost his license to practice medicine in 2005. But the forgiving people of Oklahoma decided in 2012 to let him practice in their state ‘under state supervision’ and in March 2013, the state medical board released him from the supervision and he was free to do what he wanted.
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Lawrence Mitchell, the dean of the law school at my university, has finally resigned from the deanship while continuing to be a tenured professor. He had been on a leave of absence while a lawsuit against him moved forward. The lawsuit had been brought by associate dean Raymond Ku who charged that Mitchell had retaliated against him for reporting numerous allegations of sexual misconduct involving students and faculty. (I know many of the law school faculty but have never met Mitchell who came here only in 2011. But I know and like Ku who has been here for some time. But not being in the law school, I have no inside knowledge on the merits of the charges.)
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Congress is supposed to exercise oversight of all government agencies, and its intelligence oversight committees are supposed to monitor the CIA. But a new report from the McClatchy news service says that there are allegations that the CIA turned the tables and started monitoring the intelligence committees, by spying on members of the staff of those committees.
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