by Susan Eisenberg | Apr 8, 2014 | The Public Humanist
“The training will be good for those nitwits.” I winced, but said nothing, then mulled over my silence and “nitwits” for weeks. The speaker was describing the 2-hours of required harassment training for the electrical maintenance department at...
by Ken Chowder | Apr 15, 2014 | The Public Humanist
Editor’s Note: Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America, a film by Lawrence Hott and Diane Garey, premieres at the Northampton Academy of Music on Sunday, April 13, 4 PM. At the editor’s request, the film’s writer Ken Chowder contributed the...
by Bob Meagher | Apr 25, 2014 | The Public Humanist
By now most every American is painfully aware of the runaway suicide rate in the military, averaging 33 suicides per month in 2012, roughly one every seventeen hours. Even this number—representing confirmed suicides among active duty troops—falls far short...
by James Heflin | Apr 7, 2014 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Go ahead, guess where this futuristic stage set exists. I know, I know–too easy. It is, of course, Astana, Kazakhstan. German photographer Frank Herfort has travelled all over the former Soviet Union documenting the bizarre and futuristic buildings that have...
by James Heflin | Apr 14, 2014 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Goldang Clinton, undermining the military! Have you heard? Bill C. took the guns away from soldiers–on their own bases! They said so on the TV! However, the Department of Defense directive stating this policy dates to February of 1992. That would be under the...