The Buzz About Bees

As if we needed to add to the strain of the already-perplexing Colony Collapse Disorder that continues its silent kill of European honeybees worldwide, a late-year news item from Bloomberg portrays a New York judge taking a delinquent EPA to task for turning a blind eye of approval toward Bayer's latest bee killer, environmental advocates say. Why care? Because those honeybees pollinate our crops. So the honeybee goes, so the human population goes. Do we really need another bug spray — another nail in our own coffin? It's time we got schooled in the art of smart consumerism. It's a new year, a new decade, and it's not too late. Self empowerment, anyone?

Harvard Professor Plays the Race Card

Victimhood never flatters anyone. A Harvard Professor of African and African American studies allegedly baits officer into arresting him in front of his own home, and then cries "foul". Does the esteemed professor have a basis for the racism claim? Learn how to make a break with the "blame game".