A recent article has piqued my attention and I want to make a comment. It’s a controversial topic but as an outsider, I have to ask…….. (DEEP BREATH) A 17 year old student at a university here in the US is trying to form a white student union. Now before you freak out and go all ‘this is racist’ on …
Here’s the thing about GMO’s
There has been a real buzz lately on the GMO issue. California is going for another controversial vote, this time forcing companies to label any product which has GMO ingredients in it. This is a very important issue simply because we, as consumers, have the right to know what we are buying and eating. You can’t make informed choices if …
Lighten Up People and Smile
There is so much angst in the world right now. It’s like the planet is collectively pissed off! What’s the deal? Mercury isn’t in retrograde, there’s no full moon, no major disaster. Sure, European economies are floundering like a beached whale without rescuers. I know it’s been a long hot summer in the northern hemisphere and the south is a bit …
Remembering 9/11
Living in New York brings the magnitude of 9/11 to the fore every year. We know so many people who were personally involved and their stories are incredible and tragic. We were still living in Australia at the time and from there it was all very surreal. It was horrifying and the world changed that day but it was a …
We’re Done with Guns
I don’t like to get political but I am extremely saddened and angry today and I need to say this: In the wake of the Aurora, Colorado theatre shooting, real questions need to be asked about what America is doing about gun violence. How many mass shootings by psychotic people will it take for the Government to get tough on …
Big Pharma Caught Bribing Physicians
It was a news item the other day that finally a Big Pharma company, GlaxoSmithKline, has been called to task and more importantly CHARGED for defrauding patients and bribing doctors. Of course the amount they were fined was minimal in comparison to their profits, $3b, but I believe it’s an important step towards changing the way Big Pharma and Health …
Freedom Pops and Fizzes Around Here
As I write this through my bleary eyes I am reminded why 4th July celebrations really exist. It was a rough night….. but I had the FREEDOM to lie awake at 4am listening to what can only be described as heavy shelling and mortar fire throughout the streets of Harlem. I also had the FREEDOM to get out of bed …
Happy 4th July……
May your campfires be bright and your smores be light…….. in your stomach 🙂 hehehe
Life’s Twists and Turns…….
With the news this week of the death of Rodney King, the man whose beating by police sparked the LA riots in 1991 and the total exoneration of Lindy and Michael Chamberlain in the death of their daughter Azaria at Ayers Rock in 1980, it makes me think how these lives changed in an instant and they were innocent people, …