Facing low recruitment levels, the U.S. Army quietly lifted its ban on allowing people with a history of mental illness, self-mutilation and drug abuse to serve in the military – despite warnings from the industry about the risks involved. The new rules green-light recruits who have bipolar disorder, depression and issues with cutting – a […]
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Lost Opportunity
Roy Moore, Republican nominee to fill the U.S. Senate seat from Alabama vacated by Jeff Sessions, has been accused of sexually harassing teenage girls, including a fourteen-year-old. Moore is the founder and president of the Foundation for Moral Law. With the Vietnam War underway, Moore served in several posts as a military police officer, including Fort […]
So what have we here?
by Bob Gerst So what have we here? There’s a scan (black with white squiggles) I made tonight of an insect of some kind that had fallen in our mail. There’s a slide from about 1970 something that, evidently, fell on the floor beneath the radiator that I discovered today when I was vacuuming the […]