WordPress Changes Abuse Policy: Excises Defamation Reports-UPDATE

UPDATE2: Complaint Filed with Better Business Bureau on March 30th. WordPress's current rating at the BBB is a B-. WordPress.com has taken another step toward eliminating any responsibility for the hosting of...

Wyeth: Scientific Ghostwriting

For years, pharmaceutical companies have paid doctors to put their names on ghostwritten research papers designed to increase drug sales and downplay negative side effects. What what what??? Wait, save your...

Dear John (USPS)

Dear John USPS, the last thing i have time for right now is a blog entry, and yet here it is. in two days i'll be moving, and so it was, at one of the worst possible times, that i sold a dvd on amazon. don't get me...

Elementary Social Studies Should Include More Cultural Anthropology

First I'd like to share a quote from the first lecture in Edward Fischer's Teaching Company course Peoples and Cultures of the World. He defines cultural anthropology by describing how it differs from other...