Permission to Live: Why I used to be afraid of Universal Health Care

From the “Why didn’t Apple ship this?” file: a cool, flexible firewire connector that lets you orient your iSight however you wish, eliminating the clunky mounts supplied by Apple.

Sysco is the latest food giant—it’s the largest food distributor in the country—to come out against gestation crate confinement of pigs. The National Pork Producers Council’s communications director was quoted in the  [more...]

I lay in bed, watching a little tv and listening to the roar and groans of the dishwasher until I started to doze off. I turned off the tv and settled in to sleep, drifting in and out, and then heard it: people talking  [more...]