Category: Society

[image fid=”440″ src=”/files/styles/thumbnail/public/postimages/2012/07/copycat.jpg” align=”right” style=”thumbnail” width=”150″ height=”197″ link=”” alt=”” title=”” credit=”” credit_link=””]Booking photo of Timothy Courtois[/image ]America, we have a problem! At least 3 men accused of making threats during or after watching the new Batman movie have been arrested in separate incidents, underscoring moviegoers’ anxieties and heightened security in the wake of a deadly […]

This is something I have known for years: A study in the August edition of The Journal of School Health finds that the generations old theory of a “gateway drug” effect is in fact accurate, but shifts the blame for escalating substance abuse away from marijuana and onto the most pervasive and socially accepted drug […]

Rasmussen is out with a new poll today showing that 55% believe hate is on the rise in the United States. Given the right wing bias of Rasmussen, that’s pretty amazing. I just wish I could see how much it has risen since 2009.

The extremists on the right are at it again, this time in Wisconsin: GRAND CHUTE — Police say a small, homemade explosive device caused damage Sunday to Planned Parenthood’s Gillett Street clinic. The Grand Chute Fire Department was called to the clinic at 3800 N. Gillett St. about 7:40 p.m. for a fire alarm. Police […]

Here’s a sad story out of the U.K.: Alzheimer’s sufferer Dorothy Griffiths, 87, was found sitting down after staff heard a bang and a carer went to the office for help to lift her. But agency nurse Abdul Bhutto, who was in charge, said they would have to wait. Carer Zoe Shaw told the Sheffield […]

When will Congress act and pass a law making it illegal for schools and employers to force people to turn over their credentials to things like Facebook, Twitter and even Email? Here’s the latest: In the Minnesota case, the 12-year-old girl, known only as RS, is said to have been punished by teachers at Minnewaska […]

Yesterday’s anti-SOPA blackout was effective: Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) withdrew as a co-sponsor of the Protect IP Act in the Senate, while Reps. Lee Terry (R-Neb.) and Ben Quayle (R-Ariz.) said they were pulling their names from the companion House bill, the Stop Online Piracy Act. Opponents of the legislation, led by large Internet companies, […]

Here’s a major contributor to America’s health epidemic: Paula Deen — the queen of high-calorie, Southern cooking — is about to come clean and confess that she can’t eat her own dishes anymore because she has diabetes. The Georgia-born chef — a Food Network star who has written five best-selling cookbooks — has been trying […]

This is a part of class warfare people never seem to talk about: New moms and dads with visions of Ivy League degrees dancing in their heads should be prepared to face a bill of $422,320 in today’s dollars if Junior heads off to one the country’s priciest colleges as a member of the class […]

A bunch of new laws will be surfacing around the nation in 2012, but one really has me steamed: California also became the first state in the nation to require a prescription for obtaining any drug containing dextromethorphan, an ingredient found in many popular over-the-counter cough suppressants, including Robitussin, NyQuil and Dimetapp. The law was […]