Article from The Nation: Our Democracy No Longer Works and the Problem Is Congress Solutions: (1) Citizen-funded elections such as described in the current bill sponsored in the House by Democrat John Larson and Republican Walter Jones, in the Senate by Democrats Dick Durbin and Arlen Specter. That bill is a hybrid between traditional public [...]

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#10: Detoxify This! People who want to “detoxify” often don’t have any idea what ‘toxins’ they’re talking about. They may vaguely believe that modern life contaminates us with lots of bad things that we ought to get rid of. It’s reminiscent of religious fasting and purification rites. Orthodox Jewish women go to a ritual bath [...]

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#9: But It’s Natural, and Natural is Good! When you really stop to think, is there any reason a remedy SHOULD be better just because it’s natural? There are plenty of natural poisons, from hemlock to strychnine. Plants have to protect themselves from predators, and they have invented quite an array of chemical defenses. We [...]

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