Allegheny Independent Media

Allegheny Independent Media

Season’s Shootings

This weekend there were copy cat shootings to the Newtown shootings in Hollidaysburg, PA and Rochester, NY.  I know I said I wasn’t going to blog about the shootings but the extra incidents before the holiday prompted me.  They may or may not be connected.  I feel that this satire by Eddie Murphy and JoeContinue reading “Season’s Shootings”

Ruth Institute – Making Marriage Cool (In the US but not Scandinavia)

The weekend before Valentine’s day I went to a talk sponsored by the Newman Center at the University of Pittsburgh titled “What is Marriage?”  by Jennifer Roback-Morse PhD.  She is an economist who founded the Ruth institute.  For those of you who who are not familiar this institute has nothing to do with Dr. RuthContinue reading “Ruth Institute – Making Marriage Cool (In the US but not Scandinavia)”