For centuries, homosexuals have been harassed into separate closets and are now being told that a military demand for confidentiality is about returning to that situation. Crusaders instilling such shame and defenders from them imagine that this policy is about their own holy war. It is not, but rather it asks whether homosexuals will be allowed to move onto this or any non-disclosure without being stigmatized as acting in shame. Nor is it about imposed dishonesty; after all how can one lie if one doesn't tell? How can one's silence infer homosexuality if none who are asked answer? The problem is not with Don’t Ask Don't Tell; it is with those heterosexuals who presume that they are only on the don't-ask portion of the protocol. Why are setting-the-record-straight soldiers being allowed to place the onus of the policy's practicality on the homosexual community?   more »

Beyond the risks associated with false positives, breast tissue is so sensitive to a mammography’s radiation as to be threatened by the very examination developed to protect it. (December 23, 2009 update)   more »

With the 20th anniversary celebration of the toppling of the Berlin Wall, I reminisced still twenty years further back upon an earlier visit to Berlin in November of 1969 only to discover that I had somehow misunderstood how that visit had actually ended.   more »