woody's world

Many soldiers killed by an insane psychologist. Insane? He would have to be to do something like that. Oh, and he was a Muslim too. So now c...

This is a comment on the death penalty. I started out years ago supporting it believing in the safety of the criminal justice system. Over t...

Probably. They claimed Iroquois ancestry and have features that are consistent with this claim. Their eyes are typical of some groups of Nat...

Thanks to my nephew Dan for getting me on this track. The link in not obvious. In 1969 I walked into my first real class of 90 students as a...

Why do we need a separate law for every hate crime? I don't really get it. Before today it wasn't a federal crime to hate a person b...

Today the President will sign the Defense Appropriations bill which includes the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention ...

I have lately been bothered by the unending amount of bad news from world science, political and economic sources that are pessimistic in th...

Found at last!! My old friend George Kistner . We had some crazy times in high school . He had a late 40s Chevy convertible that we used t...

One of those days when the future looms large for some reason. And it's not a pretty future either. Henry Pollack has just published a b...

He stood before the bathroom mirror. His father's straight razor in hand wondering how he got to this place. The only way out was a quic...