Dear God,
I feel compelled to offer an apology on behalf of my fellow Americans — well, only the ones on the so-called religious right — for ceaselessly exploiting Your Name for political gain. If You recall, back in 1956 someone decided to put the words “under God” into the Amercian Pledge of Allegience. In my [...]

I had to take a break from the Japan posts to express my outrage at “President” Bush’s presumptious act of deciding what is best for science and ethics in vetoing an expansion of funding for stem cell research, RESEARCH THAT COULD LEAD TO CURES THAT CAN SAVE LIVES AND END SUFFERING:
Bush said the bill crossed [...]

Kachidoki Bridge, Tokyo

Is this pretty or what?