Moyers: "How Did the Mainstream Press Get It So Wrong?"

If you missed Bill Moyers show on PBS last night, go watch it here.

Bill Gates Needs Some Socially Responsible Investment Advice

LATimes finds that Gates Foundation investments are killing the very people it purports to help with its charitable works. Poor folks get free Gates Foundation vaccinations then spend the rest of their lives breathing fumes from the local oil company -- whose chief investor is the Gates Foundation. Left hand, right hand?

Bill: Try

Calvert

Domini

PaxWorld

Or just stop investing in oil companies. That would be a good start.

Dead Again

The bipolar computer is now catatonic. (It has a hard drive, it can't find the hard drive, it has a hard drive, it can't find the hard drive....whatever.) I'm at the local public library, posting from a computer supplied by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as the mousepad helpfully tells me.

The new computer is ordered, and most of it has arrived, but they've back-ordered one piece -- the keyboard.

So, maybe I'll be back in three days, or not until after Labor Day. It's catch as can for a few weeks here.