H Paul Garland

American politicians (including the Obama administration) and the news media are focusing entirely on the wrong part of this disaster. They ...

The well blow out in the Gulf of Mexico near to Louisiana has shown me again that advanced degrees from famous universities don't make a...

As a third generation Texan I consider it both my right and my obligation to point out that our Governor, an ignorant red-neck by the name o...

A young lady I know who has never lived outside of America recently brought to everyone's attention the fact that laws like the one rece...

Avatar was finally released on CD this week. I just finished watching it. I can see why it is the highest grossing movie of all time. There ...

The continuing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico near to New Orleans is now being called the “biggest oil spill in the world.” NOAA says the ...

The massacre in Juarez, Mexico is continuing to grow. Comparing the period January through April, the deaths due to the corruption and drug ...

Politicians and some economists are concerned about the long term effects of America having so much national debt. They are wringing their h...

The President of Mexico has joined the chorus of politicians, corrupt American businessmen, and people with legitimate civil right concerns ...

The dog and I went out in the back yard this morning at 3:00 a.m. so that I could try to get a couple of good moon pictures. The moon is cur...

Taking the language of European politics, I certainly am not a conservative (barf). In England the labor party in some ways mimics the Democ...

CLL or chronic lymphocytic leukemia is not curable. That is how most of the honest articles on CLL begin. Even so, informed patients find it...

I have been really lucky. I was born half way through the 20th century. We didn't know in the 1960s and 1970s that we were living in the...

Yesterday I went over to a blood lab and had blood taken. They are going to run tests for the things that leukemia patients care about. I sh...

I have the utmost praise for this documentary. It is without any doubt one of the most socially important movies to have come out in many ye...

On one of my computers I was using the McAfee virus protection software. It had almost two years left on the subscription, for which I had p...

I follow the Dali Lama's tweets on Twitter. Times have changed...us old geezers feel quite comfortable with this 21st century technology...

Last night I dreamed I was the new Pope. I am not a catholic, so this was a bit strange. - There was none of the perversion, negativity, or ...

This kind of reusable cloth shopping bag is far easier to carry because of the wooden handles. They are very common in Europe, and are readi...

I am in the middle of reading Childhood's End which was written by Arthur C. Clarke. It first appeared as a short story in 1950 and the...