Can you say Autism?

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Yes, we have that nice little widget over there that is getting a little attention these days.  I personally thank everyone who has donated and wish everyone luck on the upcoming walk.  The next little post has very little to do with Autism, but if you know anything about Autism, then you also know very little is known about what “causes” it.  So read the below article and you tell me if things like this should be left to chance. 

Isn’t there something wrong with our Country when China bans a chemical found in baby bottles and the liners of baby formula before we do?  Canada is about too as well.

Is this, you conservatives out there, your idea of Free Market Capitalism?   After a few million kids contract cancers, maybe become autistic and grow three legs from this stuff oozing out of their baby bottles another company will stop using the supposedly benign  substance and the other companies will be forced to not use BPA or go out of business.  Supply and Demand.  Free market.  woohooo. 

My letter to Frank Rich.

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I love reading Frank Rich on Sunday’s The guy is a great writer. So when he wrote this yesterday:

It’s not just torture we want to avoid. Most Americans don’t want to hear, see or feel anything about Iraq, whether they support the war or oppose it. They want to look away, period, and have been doing so for some time.

I finally can disagree with him and start to consider him a media elite. Someone that may not be AS in touch as I thought. You see, Mr. Rich. We don’t want to avoid, WE ARE TOTALLY POWERLESS TO DO ANYTHING. You see, we have people like Torturing Tom Carper that suspend habeas Corpus. People Like Mike McCastle that vote lockstep with Bush. That are ok with letting lawbreaking companies get a free pass.

A donviti thought for the day

I am rethinking just how valuable a harvard MBA is and if it current economic conditions have devalued it at all....thoughts. 'The problem is not at all insurmountable in the…

Wall Street Welfare

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As it is called by E.J.Dionne in what is likely the last word on corporate America’s newly found use for government and Wall Street’s currently hypocritical stance towards government and its utility:

Never do I want to hear again from my conservative friends about how brilliant capitalists are, how much they deserve their seven-figure salaries and how government should keep its hands off the private economy.

The Wall Street titans have turned into a bunch of welfare clients. They are desperate to be bailed out by government from their own incompetence, and from the deregulatory regime for which they lobbied so hard. They have lost “confidence” in each other, you see, because none of these oh-so-wise captains of the universe have any idea what kinds of devalued securities sit in one another’s portfolios.