According to U.S. Department of Agriculture, in 2002, 34.9 million Americans lived in households experiencing "food insecurity" - that is, not enough food for basic nourishment - an increase of more than 3 million people since 1999. (U.S. Department of Agriculture, Household Food Security in the United States, 2002, October 2003.) -rob (Source: http://povertyusa.org)
Brad: First, I think that you've interpreted the Marriage Statistic incorrectly. ("Married people preferred Bush 53 to 38.") It should be %3% of married people favored Bush (Compared to 44% of married people favoring Gore.) Secondly, I think it is quite obvious that less wealthy people favor Democrats and more wealthy people favor Republicans. But I don't think extending this observation to imply that wealthy people somehow choose better leaders has any merit. Less wealthy peop
SolitairThe author should however have at least acknowledged the superb results coming in from Mars Express. Mars Express was the important mission. Focussing purely on the failed Beagle aspect of the mission gives the author the very impression of a superiority complex he's accusing Pillinger of. Lets just focus on the other peoples failures not their successes! I hope this was just an oversight. My apologies to Paul. I agree that Mars Express was the more important mission, and it ha
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N.B. I've never been to Alaska, but when you select the United States, it highlights Alaska, too.
I'm not a fan of "country counting," but I ran across this nifty website, so I thought I'd try it out. create your own visited country map or write about it on the open travel guide
I appreciate your comments, BakerStreet, and I think you make a good point. Context does matter, and I would agree an overtly sexual public television would not be a good influence on society. The point I would make though is that we already have an overtly sexual television. The "bump and grind" that the performers were doing just before the boob pop-out was, in my opinion, more sexually suggestive than seeing her bare boob. But no one complained about the bump and grind (that I saw).
Ha, ha. My pleasure. ...I try. I've enjoyed your comments though. :)
I don't think it's rediculous OR ridiculous ! My point remains that being governor of Vermont is a FAR lesser responsibility than being President of the United States, and I don't think Governor Dean is qualified to be President. It would be great to believe in his potential and give him a shot at it, but I don't think he can afford the risk in this day and age. Dean can't even seem
Does anyone else think it is ridiculous that everyone is making a big stink out of Janet Jackson's boob display at the Super Bowl Half-time Show? Yes, it was probably an intentional ploy to grab media attention. And yes, that is pretty low. But, Come on! It was just a boob! Yet, Michael Powell, of the FCC is reacting as if he and his children are scarred for life afte
I'm going to switch for a minute from politics to science... It had promised to be an exciting winter for Mars exploration with the expected arrival of four spacecraft at Mars: one from Japan, one from Europe, and two from the United States. With so much traffic headed to Mars, many in the press (especially in Europe) tried to chalk the season up as
I consider myself a progressive, and I plan on voting for Kerry. I think he's very progressive on certain issues, like the environment and education. Yet, fically responsible on other issues, such as health care. Bob, thanks for the point about Dean's programs. I had assumed that was the case, federal money administered by the state. But my point remains: Just because Dean was successful at administering sub-billion dollars worth of programs that effect sub-millions of people does not p
Sure I'd love to have an open civil discussion with you. I tried to make a similar post to the Dean forum because I honestly wanted some quality discussion with Dean people, but they quickly deleted my message and suspended my account. It really frustrated me. Afterwards, I visited the Kerry forum, and found that many, many others had been censored from the Dean forum, too. I don't know why Dean people found my post so offensive. I tried to be open and honest in my views. So anyways, I'd love to
If you’ve read my last couple of posts, you’ve probably figured out I’m a bit of a John Kerry fan. But today (Friday) Sen. Kerry is off winning votes over in South Carolina, while Governor Dean is here in St. Louis desperately trying to play catch up. I like hearing from every side of the debate, so I decided to go check out what Dean had to say. I arrived
Vermont: Population: 608,827 (US is 500 times) Largest City (Burlington): 38,889 Percent white: 96.8 http://www.netstate.com/states/alma/vt_alma.htm National Debt: $7 trillion http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/ Vermont budget: http://www.montpelier-vt.org/budget/FY04/insideoutside.htm National urban: 77% http://www.studentsoftheworld.info/infopays/rank/popvil2.html Vermont inherited decifit: $70 million htt
The 5% was "agreed cautiously." One example is when he mentioned that former public officials would be prohibitted from becoming lobbyists for 5 years after they finish their public service. I agree that lobbying has too tight of a grip on policy decisions, and something should be done to prevent that. But such a policy might infringe on the rights former government officials have to become lobbyists. I'm not an expert on how the lobbying system works, so I don't know if their are already specia
Ok, maybe they were the bags of his brother Cam Kerry, but it did get my into the "VIP" section. It was quite strange and amazing at the same time how it all happened. Let me explain it all from the beginning. 12pm I hung up some posters and flyers in a high traffic area on my campus (Washington University in St. Louis), advertising Kerry's appea
It's Tuesday night in late January, election year 2004. I'm standing in a crowded room at the Windsor Community Day Care Center in South St. Louis. Mayor Francis Clay is standing next to me, executively finishing off the remains of the cold Imo's cheese pizza, and John Kerry is on the TV giving his victory speech in New Hampshire--looking and sounding like the next Pr
Just a note: the poll I mentioned regarding Kerry versus Bush is from a Newsweek poll conducted Jan. 22 and Jan 23. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/Default.aspx?id=4049942&p1=0 .
Hi Bob, I'd agree with the last commentator that it would be a good idea to get ahold of a TV and watch one of the debates. If that's not possible, you could try to download some of his videos from the johnkerry.com website. As far as John Kerry's style, I've heard some comments that he is "too serious" in person, but I've also heard the rebuttal "we need someone who is serious to be President." I agree with that rebuttal. I think that both Bush and Dean are guilty of a causual
I returned from Bolivia last Saturday. It was an amazing experience, and I learned a lot. I would write more about it here, but I would rather keep my notes on my group blog site, which can be found at http://equipobolivia.org/blog.html. Please check it out, and you are welcome to leave comments on this site, or on our Contact page at http://equipobolivia.org/contact.shtml Now that I'm back in the USA, most of my focus has been on the Presidential primaries. My state, Missouri, will h
I am currently participating in a group blog, and all my posts for the next few weeks will be at the following site: http://equipobolivia.org/blog.html I am currently in Cochabamba, Bolivia, working wish orphaned children, and this blog is about our experience there. Please follow along, and let us know what you think! Thanks. -rob
Thanks. I appreciate it. I'm not sure how often I'll be able to post in depth reviews, but I'll try to keep it up! ...of course, if someone will pay for me to write, I'd do it more often! ;) Best wishes to you.
I'm relatively new to web publishing, but thus far have been pleased with my meager but promising results. I was talking with a friend today, however, who just broke into the periodical publishing industry, and he offered a negative criticism of web publishing, saying that it fails to weed out the trash. I agree with him to some extent. I believe, however, that readers can choose for themselves who is trash and who isn't. What I do hope though is that web publishing does not become a r
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