To use a cliche: details are sketchy right now – as always in these fluid, chaotic situations surrounding power grabs, but it seems that in Libreville, capital of the Republic of Gabon in central West Central Africa, five soldiers attempted a coup d’etat.
Click open the newspaper and behold: stories of religion, the monotheisms born of desert honor culture particularly, messing something or someone up, often fatally. Click open the international section where conflict and war follow the bloody borders of faiths.
It is two-years-in mania now: It is American democracy’s mid-term exam and the results will go on our nation’s permanent record. We are speeding towards the event horizon of our destiny.
While the eyes of the world were fixed on the Winter Olympics earlier this year we missed a smaller series of events in Seoul where every day a group of protesters were loudly objecting to the consumption of dog meat in Korea.
When did you last stand in line?
I mean really stand in line. It might have been the airport (average line time perhaps 15 minutes), the drug store, even in busy Manhattan, a minute or two before customers start tsking and wishing the person holding them up at the counter would just self immolate already,
It was perfect weather for a rally and march last Saturday: you couldn’t have ordered better weather on Amazon Prime. This was fortuitous because every year supporters of Taiwan go on a march to rally for one of American’s best friends in East Asia.
It’s been a lively month for Catholic and Islamic communities of faith. Visiting Ireland on the first Papal visit in 40 years Pope Francis found a country utterly changed from the Ireland his predecessor visited.
Major depressive disorders (6.7%), PTSD (8%) and other anxiety disorders together emiserate a substantial percentage of humanity.Clinicians differ about the efficacy of our first line of defense against the above: SSRI anti-depressants and their newer cousins SSNIs. The latest meta-studies inform us they do work very well for many. Read More
Argentina encountered a fork in the road last week and took a wrong turn. Read More
Here’s a story for today: it seems one of our largest and most trusted health care providers has been pulling a swiftie on the American public. Read More
David Anderson 