The News For Squirrels

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. For squirrels, that is. This is the story of two small towns. Although on opposite ...

Last spring I introduced readers to Robo-Squirrel, a biorobotic squirrel designed and built by researches at the University of California Sa...

Newt Gingrich:  Concerned that free handouts of nuts and acorns is creating a "culture of dependence" among the bushy-tailed roden...

This is just about as ugly as it gets. Ken Aden is running as a Democrat for Congress in Arkansas' third district. Recently his campai...

The following is the text of an online petition that I created, asking the NC Family Policy Council to apologize for and renounce its hatefu...

I have not written on this for a while, which means that I may be as guilty as anyone of complacency on this issue, despite the fact that I ...

Thanks for the advice, but I don't need you to tell me to take a bath. I can see to my personal hygiene without your help. As for gett...

Continuing with the topic from the last post, the New York Times is following the story from Oakland. The coverage includes more videos and...

This video clip shows protesters trying to come to the aid of Scott Olsen, who was struck in the head by a police "projectile" and...

Rick Perry's proposed flat tax plan would, not surprisingly, provide large tax breaks for those in the highest income brackets. This is ...

This is one of the weirdest and creepiest political advertisements I've ever seen. The narrator, Cain's chief of staff Mark Block, g...

I would add to this... Tea Party: Planned, organized, and funded by the Koch Brothers and Corporate America Occupy Wall Street: Plann...

Back in 2003, Governor Mitt Romney fought to impose pollution controls on a Massachusetts coal-fired plant that was threatening the health ...

Paul Krugman posted a chart the other day  from the Tax Policy Center summarizing the effect of Herman Cain's 9-9-9 tax proposal on  Ame...

This is without a doubt one of the most pathetic things I have ever heard. The Tea Party is now asking small businesses to refuse to hire ...

I saw this cartoon today, and wanted to share it: I am a heterosexual man, very happily married, and I have never understood what this ...

My old hometown, Lubbock, TX, is a city in west Texas of about 200,000 people. My current hometown, Charlotte, is a metropolitan area of ove...

I took these photos yesterday during the Occupy Charlotte assembly and march on the Bank of America headquarters. It was exciting for Karen ...

This is a short video that I took this afternoon at the protest at the Bank of America corporate headquarters here in Charlotte. The protest...

From the Barack Obama 2012 campaign website : The Made In the USA Mug! And you can also have the Vice President keep your drinks cold...