Long before the creation of Geordi LaForge, LeVar Burton was the host of the PBS program Reading Rainbow, which encourages children to read in a playful, library setting ( Read more... )

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I just want to wish everybody a Happy 46th Anniversary of the premier of Star Trek!

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Dear Ms Muhammad:

re.: http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/12821/

I am pleased to see such an array of prosthetic appliances coming to the market.

Back in 1965 in the Robert A. Heinlein novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, the lead character Manual Garcia O' ( Read more... )

Last night's news said that threats to rape Congressman Todd Akin's family and staff were made by telephone and over the Net. As distasteful as his ignorance of human biology is, that is absolutely NOT the way to respond. The Capitol Police are working with, I forget, either the Secret Service or the FBI in investigating the threats ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I wrote of Ryan's first day at college. This is one of the rare, special occasions where a person can have two first days: Kevin had his first day of college today ( Read more... )

Representative Akin has become the Jack Ryan of Missouri. What the Republican Party should do is replace him with Alan Keyes as they did with Mr. Ryan in Illinois, where he lost to then-State Senator Barack Obama 70% to 28%. That way Senator Claire McCaskill will be elected the first woman President in 2020 ( Read more... )

In August 1996, Ryan looked through the open door of the three-year-old preschool room at Stix Early Childhood Center, saw the wooden kitchen and telephone booth his size, saw a roomful of more children his age than he had ever seen before, cubbys, crayons, storybooks, and two of the most gentle and loving teachers I've ever seen. He walked in ( Read more... )