From the pre-blog archives, this op-ed of mine appeared in Australia’s major daily newspaper, “The Australian”, on May 10, 2004. America: the selfish state? A dispassionate examination of the US shows that recent criticisms are unfair, maintains Nicholas Kerr The recent abuses at Abu Ghraib prison and other incidents in the Iraq war have provoked an angry […]
Archives for November 2013
Let’s stop supporting the slaughter of wildlife with subsidies and mandates
A report out today estimated that more than 600,000 and as many as 900,000 bats were killed by wind turbines in the United States in 2012 alone. It’s well known that wind farms slaughter birds, including rare and endangered ones, on a large scale. But until this report came out, I had no idea bats were […]
Things about America that the rest of the world SHOULD find bizarre
Earlier this year a friend shared a link to a post entitled 13 Things That Americans Do That The Rest Of The World Just Finds Bizarre. At first glance, it was a list of American stereotypes or cliches that made me chuckle. Growing up outside of America, I’d enjoyed discovering many of them myself when I […]
Share in our joy or help us out, don’t say “It gets better!”
Steve Wiens wrote a great post earlier this year about how he feels when people come up to him and say, “”You should enjoy every moment now! They grow up so fast!” While it’s true, you absolutely should, it was easy to relate to some of the feelings he had of being too overwhelmed to do […]