Less than a year ago, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta drew some pretty righteous fire for its childhood obesity campaign, and now a similar campaign in Minnesota is opening old wounds. Critics of both charge that shaming people promotes unhappiness, not health, and that shaming children is just plain mean. It’s also redundant of what their […]
What’s the big deal about organ trafficking, anyway? And I don’t mean herding frightened children into slaughterhouses to harvest their organs. It’s wrong to frighten children. I mean the Brazilian woman who’s decided that she’d rather live out her days in marginal poverty with one kidney than in abject poverty with two. Or hell, the […]
32-year NSA veteran, Jedi mathematician and whistleblower William Binney claims that software he developed to spy on the former Soviet Union is being used to spy on American citizens and that the NSA’s new data storage facility in Bluffdale, Utah has the capacity to store 100 years’ worth of the world’s electronic communications. According to […]
