Howard Zinn
Are our fish really being poisoned with mercury?
Thursday, September 25th, 2008If you smell something fishy in this latest wave of methyl mercury talk, the reason is that there is something fishy in it — very fishy — and it stinks to high heaven. Please don’t be lured in. The relevant facts are these:
In this country, there hasn’t been a single scientifically documented case of fish-related [...]
Freedom versus Equality
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008A reader writes:
Dear Thinking Man: In your endless diatribes on “freedom,” you’ve managed to leave out one very important thing: a definition of the word. The men who penned the Declaration of Independence wrote out a system of so-called rights that were limited to life, liberty, and happiness for males only — and actually only [...]