Prison suicides and mental illness

Piggybacking on Amp's report of recent NYT statistics on prisons and prisoners in the U.S. is the news that prisoner suicides in Massa...

Friday Music: Robert Wyatt

Robert Wyatt is a music legend you may never have heard about. He was a singer and drummer of the '60s psych-jazz band Soft Machine tha...

Robert Latimer denied parole

Yesterday, a Canadian parole board in a prison near Victoria denied day parole to Robert Latimer . Latimer is the Saskatchewan farmer servin...

Disability in China

A Chinese woman by the name of Wang Fang declined a disability pension despite being born with feet that face backwards. This is news in Bri...

Liz Crow won a DaDa Award

I blogged about it back in early November . You voted for her. She won! The award money will go toward her latest production, "a film-b...

Best of 2007

I wasn't going to offer a Best of 2007 list of my posts this early because I'm an optimist and I like to think genius may strike me ...

Back again, but this time here to stay

My introduction at Alas, A Blog : Hi all. My name is Kay Olson (known in the past and in the archives here as Blue or Blue Lily ) and I writ...