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My childhood was a little different

Growing up in Paris in the first decades of the twentieth century were two contented children from whose household all toys and dolls had been banned. It had been their mother’s intent to nurture their intellectual skills, and the gambit had obviously worked. The older child, Andre Weil, born in 1906, was solving the most [...]

Convergence on Fast Food Liability

Ohio often seems to mirror national political debates, The Defense of Marriage issue being the most recent. Well, now you can add obesity liability to the list. Yesterday, the US House voted to block suits over fast food: The GOP-controlled House on Wednesday voted to ban super-sized lawsuits that blame the food industry for people’s [...]

Down but not out

Those blessed folks who check in here regularly would have noticed that the site was down yesterday. My hosting company informs me there was a “glitch” in my domain registration renewal that caused the problem. That glitch has been resolved and we are back up and running. Sorry for any inconvenience. If you sent me [...]