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Catching Up to the Republican Primary
Tuesday, 3 April 2012, 5:31 pm | Walter Brasch
It’s the beginning of April, and that means I just finished celebrating New Year’s Eve, and will soon begin shopping for Valentine’s gifts. In a month or two, I may even get around to toasting St. Patrick. More >>
FRACKING: Corruption a Part of Pennsylvania’s Heritage
Thursday, 22 March 2012, 10:46 am | Walter Brasch
(part 3 of 3) The history of energy exploration, mining, and delivery is best understood in a range from benevolent exploitation to worker and public oppression. A company comes into an area, leases land in rural and agricultural areas for mineral rights, ... More >>
FRACKING: Health, Environmental Impact Greater Than Claimed
Tuesday, 20 March 2012, 9:14 am | Walter Brasch
(This is Part 2 of 3. Part 1 looked at a state gag order on physicians; Part 3 examines why Pennsylvania is giving special consideration to the natural gas companies. Parts 1 and 2 are currently available at http://www.walterbrasch.blogspot.com/ ) More >>
FRACKING: Pennsylvania Gags Physicians
Monday, 19 March 2012, 4:14 pm | Walter Brasch
A new Pennsylvania law endangers public health by forbidding health care professionals from sharing information they learn about certain chemicals and procedures used in high volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing. The procedure is commonly known as fracking. More >>
Star Gazing: Comets, Actors, and Angelina’s Right Leg
Monday, 5 March 2012, 3:21 pm | Walter Brasch
In 1973, some friends and I went to the rooftop of our apartment building to watch Comet Kahoutek, touted by astronomers and the media as the comet of all comets. We were sure we’d see it since we had the requisite equipment—binoculars and beer. More >>
Tanness, Anyone? Oscar and the Bronze Beauties
Wednesday, 29 February 2012, 1:15 pm | Walter Brasch
It’s the end of February, and one of my friends is still sporting a summer tan. I know it’s phony—and she knows I know it’s phony—but I have long ago stopped teasing her about it. In her never-ending quest to appear to be beautiful and healthy, ... More >>
Walter Brasch: Fewer Words; Less Filling
Sunday, 19 February 2012, 2:45 pm | Walter Brasch
The Reduced Shakespeare Co. cleverly and humorously abridges all of Shakespeare’s 37 plays to 97 minutes. Short of having a set of Cliff’s Notes or a collection of Classic Comics, sources of innumerable student essays for more than a half-century, ... More >>
Labor Pains: A Fable for Our Times
Saturday, 11 February 2012, 1:44 pm | Walter Brasch
Once, many years ago, in a land far away between two oceans, with fruited plains, amber waves of grain, and potholes on its highways, there lived a young man named Sam. More >>
Walter Brasch: Outsourcing America’s Health Care
Sunday, 22 January 2012, 2:15 pm | Walter Brasch
“Ola, Amigo! Pack your bags, we’re going to Mexico!” bubbled Dr. Franklin Peterson Comstock III, faux physician and money-maker. More >>
Miss America: Auditioning for Center Stage
Sunday, 15 January 2012, 4:17 pm | Walter Brasch
Tucked between the New Hampshire primary and Ground Hog Day, and directly competing against an NFL playoff game, is Saturday night’s annual Miss America pageant. More >>
Making Sport of Our Future
Saturday, 7 January 2012, 1:24 pm | Walter Brasch
One of the fun things sports writers do is try to predict the winners and scores of upcoming games, from high school through the pros. For special “look-at-us-we’re important” bonus points, they create lists of “Top” teams and rank them, both ... More >>
Making Sport of Our Future
Saturday, 7 January 2012, 11:36 am | Walter Brasch
One of the fun things sports writers do is try to predict the winners and scores of upcoming games, from high school through the pros. For special “look-at-us-we’re important” bonus points, they create lists of “Top” teams and rank them, both ... More >>
One Jew’s Christmas
Friday, 23 December 2011, 2:43 pm | Walter Brasch
I am a Jew. I don’t mind receiving Christmas cards or being wished a “Merry Christmas” from friends, clerks, or even in junk mail trying to sell me something no sane person should ever buy. More >>
Pennsylvania Legislators Shoot Down Pigeons—Again
Sunday, 18 December 2011, 3:05 pm | Walter Brasch
If the first year gross anatomy class at the Penn State Hershey medical school needs spare body parts to study, they can visit the cloak room of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. That’s where most of the legislators left their spines. More >>
Labor Not Represented in Mgmt of ‘The People’s Universities’
Sunday, 11 December 2011, 12:37 pm | Walter Brasch
Although more than one million Pennsylvanians are members of labor unions, and the state has a long history of worker exploitation and union activism, neither of the two largest university systems has a labor representative on its governing board. More >>
Death by Healthy Doses
Monday, 5 December 2011, 11:30 am | Walter Brasch
They buried Bouldergrass today. The cause of death was listed as “media-induced health.” Bouldergrass had begun his health crusade more than a decade ago when he began reading more than the sports pages of his local newspaper, subscribed to ... More >>
Penn State Trustees Violated State Law
Tuesday, 22 November 2011, 12:21 pm | Walter Brasch
The Penn State Board of Trustees may have several times violated state law for its failure to publicly announce meetings and how it handled the firing of Coach Joe Paterno. However, these violations may be the least of the Board’s worries, as ... More >>
The Sanctimonious Scavengers of the Penn State Scandal
Monday, 21 November 2011, 3:04 pm | Walter Brasch
There is nothing the media love more than a good celebrity sex scandal. Since the story of Scarlett Johansson’s purloined nude pictures had run its course, and the media squeezed every drop of ink it could from the Kim Kardashian/Kris Humphries ... More >>
The High Cost of Freedom from Fossil Fuels
Monday, 14 November 2011, 4:47 pm | Walter Brasch
For a few hours on the afternoon of Nov. 1, the people of southern California were scared by initial reports of an alert at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. An “alert” is the second of four warning levels. More >>
The Personhood of a Mississippi Zygote
Monday, 14 November 2011, 3:10 pm | Walter Brasch
“O.K., class, we have a few minutes at the end of today’s lecture about how the godless Communists created evolution to try to destroy the decent loyal patriotic capitalist society of America. Any questions? Yes, Billy Bob.” More >>
