Journalist – Historian – Speaker
In an uplifting story, here’s how Heathrow responds to a young man with autism who regularly flies from England to Boston to attend school. The 21-year-old has severe autism and obsessive compulsive disorder, but has to negotiate the hectic bustle of Heathrow airport to attend Boston Higashi High School in the US. To cater for …
Last week, when I wrote about Barilla and Nico’s diet, I said that what I really wanted as a fulsome apology and a vow to do better, rather than Barilla’s non-apology apology (where he lurched from anti-homosexual rhetoric to sexism). It seems we have one. Here’s the video in English. It has an acknowledgment of …
How Did We Get Into This Mess?, as a rule, tries to find historical underpinnings of contemporary problems. I’ve been thinking about the ways that contemporary shifts in politics do and do not reflect past political realities. In today’s post, I want to engage with an impressive diary from Daily KOS, the liberal site, on …
The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level of productivity in society,” whether they are worthy of health care. Such a …