Mike Todd gets a sneak peak at Sojourners Magazine and looks at this story of a US 2002 law that requires high schools to provide personal information on all their students to military recuiters. Failure to do so could result in the loss of federal funding.
Mark Morris isn’t being quiet. His comment section hasn’t been [...]
SARS Canada
Published 5 years, 5 months agoNewsweek has an article on the woman behind the most successful war-blog ever. Using the combined forces of the blogosphere, and international bloggers, Michele Catalano, a Long Island mother has made the The Command Post a must watch for war junkies and media.
In just two weeks, Catalano’s site has gone from nowhere to 100,000 [...]
Most of us that read blogs are exposed to debate that for the most part in the god-blog, war-blog, sub-section, tends to center around politics, policy and morality, not unlike the thousands of debates on line every day.
Pundits know their postition going in, I guess that is why they pundit, and they do so with [...]
Understanding the human brain is a baby science.
Our knowledge of addiction took a step forward when US scientists made a major breakthough in mapping ‘drug seeking behavior’ in rats.
They wrote: “This demonstrates that ’subsecond’ dopamine has a pivotal role in drug-seeking behaviours.”
Understanding how the brain reacts to drug stimulation may offer clues to [...]
As predicted this virus continues to spread.
Indonesia and the Philippines reported their first cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome, both of them foreigners who had traveled to Hong Kong or Singapore, bringing the number of nations with reported cases to 20.
The Lancet, a prestigious British medical journal, broke with tradition this week and published findings [...]
I received this email this morning, which went to four bloggers in New Zealand, Wales, Australia and Canada that I’m aware of.
I’m looking forward to your commentary on Iraqis celebrating the fall of Saddam Hussein and his evil regime.
Joshua Claybourn
Indiana University
I’m going to borrow a few words from Real Live Preacher, Joshua.
This image is too [...]
Two Canadians have been killed in Iraq, both serving in different capacities.
In spite of all the griping and political posturing, and the poor state of our military, Canada has ships in the Gulf. We have Canadian military serving with US troops and Canadians who join the US military. We also have a lot of Canadians [...]

“We Canadians live in a blind spot about our identity. We have very strong feelings about who we aren’t but only weak ones about who we are. We’re passionate about what we don’t want to become but oddly passive about More
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