(No, unfortunately it’s not for Kira. This came through in my email this morning, so I thought I’d pass it on.)
May 3, 2007
Good News Travels Fast!
Your [tag]activism[/tag] just saved supplements from being turned into “untested drugs”! [tag]Big Pharma[/tag] will be back, but today, we can do a victory dance!
Thank you 435,005 times. That’s the number [...]

This article on the [tag]FDA[/tag]’s attempts to end access to [tag]vitamins[Tag], [tag]minerals[Tag], [tag]herbs[tag], and other supplements came to me in email today. I’m passing it on here in hopes the wider outreach will spur those of you who use alternative healing modalities into action to protect what’s left of your rights to do so.
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You know how intense the clash of disparately evolved cultures and societies is getting when you can see it by simply loading a webpage.
As I loaded my [tag]Google[/tag] homepage this morning I first saw this: Cleric’s 2nd wife sparks polygamy debate. The article discusses the reaction in Indonesia of a [tag]televangelist[/tag]-style [tag]Islamic[/tag] cleric (yes [...]

One simply cannot adorn the words of Bill Moyers and come away with any sense of having improved them. He is one of the prophets of our times, and to read his latest speech is to hear clearly the clarion’s call to action.
Though I hate to do it, because it makes it less likely [...]

Apparently, someone declared war on… um… let’s see. Terrorism? Well, yeah, but that’s not news. Poverty? Not in this country. Illiteracy? Sketchy — NCLB seems to be doing as much (if not more) harm for our kids as good. Drugs? Ancient history, so that can’t be right.
Turns out, the new war is supposed to have [...]

Read the article by right-clicking on the title, then choosing to open it in a new window, or new tab.
From The Repository, Canton, OH:
Recent religious-based protests against congressional budget cuts show that liberal and moderate church activists are starting to make themselves heard in a political climate long dominated by conservative Christians, religious [...]

The link to the story is in the title. But I liked this quote from the Jesuit in charge of astronomy at the Vatican:
“God in his infinite freedom continuously creates a world that reflects that freedom at all levels of the evolutionary process to greater and greater complexity,” he wrote. “He is not continually intervening, [...]

What bothers me most about the mainstream media’s coverage of the Inspector-General’s smack-down of Ken Tomlinson (former board chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting) isn’t the fact that he resigned. The man was an obvious political toady and my only surprise is that he lasted as long as he did. It isn’t even the [...]

Today is August 16th. My son has been home from the hospital for a week, and I’m just starting to feel secure enough about his ability to stay out of the hospital to begin looking around and the life I let drop over a month ago (well, the pretense I had of still having a [...]

As my teachers have repeatedly said (I’m paraphrasing): Somedays, you just have to get behind the mule and plow.
This summer seems to have been chock-full of those kinds of days lately. For those of you who didn’t know, we at M4L&L have been getting some uncompromising lessons in serenity — our elder son has been [...]