Author Archives: Bob Felton

HIV risk

A new study from the CDC finds that, like every other social and family pathology known to man, the greatest risk of contracting HIV is in south. Correlation and causation are not the same things, but it can hardly be … Continue reading

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Miscellany

I’ve been preoccupied the past few days but, just so’s you know, this country’s Right is still stark raving mad. Kevin Drum wonders what’s up with the Republican announcement that they aren’t even going to hold hearings on any Supreme … Continue reading

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Quote for the day

And let us not underestimate the calamity which crept out of Christianity into politics. Today nobody has the courage any longer for privileges, for masters’ rights, for a sense of respect for oneself and one’s peers — for a pathos … Continue reading

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Old Testament-world, ctd

ISIS has beheaded a 15-year old boy for listening to Western pop-music. According to Kurdish media reports, the jihadist group that has captured wide swaths of Syria and Iraq beheaded a 15-year-old boy in Mosul for the crime of listening … Continue reading

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