Mark Twain, actual name of Samuel Clemens, is one of the finest American writers of all time.  He is, even now, one of our foremost humorists and commentators on our social situations.  He set the standard for being clever and he’s an American.  That’s what gets you longevity in the world of writing.  Now you can see [...]

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Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert History indicates that we are at the forefront of an era in which criminal hackers develop tools and techniques to steal your money using your own cell phone. Fifteen years ago, cell phones were so bulky and cumbersome, they had to be carried in bags or briefcases. Then they became [...]

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I love the story of the three little pigs and not just because bacon tastes fantastic.  I like to view this story as the tale of a capitalist, the wolf, who sees a market of people and seeks to exploit them for his personal satisfaction.  Different groups of exploitable workers, the three pigs, try to [...]

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I have always enjoyed the story of Jack and the Beanstalk.  It has gold, talking animals, huge plants, giants and people falling to their deaths.  What’s not to like?  I’m still not quite sure what exactly the moral of the story is that we are supposed to live our lives around (don’t grind up people [...]

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A rash of teen suicides (4 in the last six months) has alarmed a Schenectady, New York school district.  At least two of the suicides have been directly attributed to abuse and bullying, especially girl to girl harassment.  However, the school superintendent has been quoted as spreading the blame, “The community is also beginning to [...]

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by Alan H. Rolnick, author of Landmark Status My brother recently sent me a riotous pictographic transliteration of a Joe Cocker performance from Woodstock, which, despite seeming like it was only yesterday to those who were there and are still here, really did take place almost forty years ago. Watching the clip, I realized that [...]

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Caylee Marie Anthony disappeared in mid June and no one was notified of her disappearance for 31 days when the child’s grandmother finally called 911 to report it. Cindy Anthony’s famous words to the 911 operator were ‘My daughter’s car smelled like a dead body had been in the damn car’. A mass search went [...]

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(Leanne, Shel. New York: McGraw-Hill. 2009)Agree with him or not, there is no question that Barack Obama is an engaging speaker; a politician with the rare gift of oratory, an art that seemed to have been a lost since the time of Reagan.  Shel Leanne’s book, Say it Like Obama, does an excellent job of [...]

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It has been claimed recently that thousand of files of asbestos victims in the UK have been destroyed, and this could lead to many people that are suffering from asbestos related cancer and similar diseases being unable to get the compensation to which they are entitled, due to the destruction of vital evidence and documentation. [...]

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The cost for the search for Haleigh Cummings who has now been missing for four months is beginning to take its toll on the county as a whole. On Tuesday the Putnam County Commissioners voted to raise the fuel tax by 6 cents per gallon. This incidentally doubles the amount levied by the county. At [...]

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The 2009 International Symposium on Malignant Mesothelioma has now been scheduled for the end of June. The event, which is organised by the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation (Meso Foundation) is set to be held in Washington DC from the 25th June until 27th June.

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One wonders why it took so long for the story of the Bielski brothers, sensible and steady Tuvia (Daniel Craig), hot-headed Zus (Liev Schreiber) and peace-maker Asael (Jamie Bell) and their partisan band, who hid out in the forests of Belarus during World War II. Eventually, the brothers gathered to them a self-sufficient band of [...]

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The New York Times has an article on the obstacles to safe childbirth in Tanzania. I worked in two other African countries thirty years ago, and it doesn’t look like much has changed in these isolated and poor rural areas. … Only 20 percent of women in the area give birth at the hospital, and [...]

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