Op-ed

Because I keep getting frantic calls from parents about this, and even such usually sensible sources as NPR and National Geographic are calling out "anti-vaxxers" as irrational, deluded, or even anti-scientific, the worst insult of all, hitherto applied only to climate deniers and those other yahoos and neanderthals of the Republican persuasion, I feel compelled to throw my own two cents in, and to try to inject at least a modicum of common-sense and sanity into the mix, so I don't need to repeat the same things over and over, even though I have to admit that I've been doing just that for t

On 26 January activists braved the beginnings of a ‘crippling and potentially historic’ blizzard to hold a candle-lit vigil outside the ‘Australia Day Boston Dinner’ at the W Hotel in downtown Boston to protest what the United Nations Committee on Torture calls “the unlawful and inhumane treatment of asylum seekers” at an Australian Government-managed detention center on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea (PNG).

The energy transition is well underway. At least we thought it was before the mid-term elections. Will those that the fossil fuel industries have in their back pockets be disinclined to vote for resounding incentives for solar and wind ? Here in Massachusetts, solar and wind have been in some ways encouraged by the legislature, assuming their backers have the funds to implement them. Fifth in the nation in the amount of energy we get from solar and that's without the big utility scale arrays that have been deployed in the deserts of California.

People speaking for the victims of police violence have unreservedly condemned the recent killing of the two New York City police officers.

People speaking for the police never condemned the killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner.