Five years ago, on one of my “UFO Tours” (coined by comedian Bill Hicks, when you only appear in small towns in front of a handful of people so you start to doubt your own existence), I had a show in Burley, Idaho – home to some of the warmest and most hospitable inhabitants I’ve ever hung out with.Burley is [Read More]

Independent’s Eye by Joe GandelmanWhen NPR shocked many by axing commentator Juan Williams for comments he made on Fox News about fearing Muslims on planes it sparked a battle to define exactly what his firing meant…Was it smothering free speech? Zero tolerance political correctness gone mad? A consequence for bigoted comments that if uttered by a Pat Buchanan about African [Read More]

Science magazine reports that researchers are close to coming up with a way to exterminate cockroaches based on the males’ extraordinary sex drive. This is both good news and bad for Hawaii which boasts, not loudly or often, 19 species of cockroaches. The good news is that scientists are coming up with a way to kill cockroaches that does not [Read More]