HELIOLITH

Listening to yesterday’s podcast of Democracy Now (transcript here), some serious issues in the trial come to light. I have not been closely following this trial at all, but it seems that an appeal is clearly warranted, on several grounds, and anyone even scanning the headlines can realize how politicized this trial has become, […]

The parallels between Battlestar Galactica’s 3rd Season and the occupation of Iraq are clearly intentional, and undeniably thought provoking. If you haven’t seen it yet, you should probably skip my post.
Interestingly, it’s the human forces in the show that parallel the role of the occupied Iraqis, while the Cylon robot-enemy plays the […]

I’ve been using the Environmental Working Group’s new indispensible database that evaluated 785 name-brand sunscreen products that was made public in June 2007. [Press Release, Executive Summary, Best Products]
My family is spending a ton of time in the sun lately, and as a parent it’s an obvious duty to protect […]