Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, and every so often the Christian Right is right about something. Recently, the American Family Association (a Christian right lobbying group) sent out an email to their membership list warning them about "BusRadio." In some school districts in MA this fall, school children will be subjected to corporate marketing over the radio. If you have children in the public schools, now would be a good time to alert your representatives that you do not want your kids to be forced to listen to corporate advertising on the way to school every day.

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It's easy to be discouraged about the future of the American government and economy with Dubya in charge ... but every once in a while I trip over something that reminds me of why I am extremely fortunate to be an American citizen. In the 1/23/06 issue of the New Yorker, reporter Dan Baum interviewed a Peruvian immigrant whom, at first glance, you might think would be dying to go home. He has a graduate degree in engineering and a much sought after job in Peru, which his employer is holding open for him for a year in the hope that he will return. In the US, he makes the same wages (as he made in Peru) as a food service worker in a supermarket and has to spend far more in living expenses for a much less affluent lifestyle than he had in Peru. But he still wants to stay...