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The Trump — Endorsed “SAVE Act”: or, If Crocodiles were Beautiful
By Don C. ReedIn Lake Burundi, Africa. there lives a crocodile whom the locals call Gustave. (1)About twenty feet long and weighing an estimated one ton, it is said to have killed three hundred people. About the only good thing you can say for Gustave is that he is...
The Trump “SAVE Act”: or, if Crocodiles were Beautiful
By Don C. Reed In Lake Burundi, Africa, there lives a crocodile whom the locals call Gustave. (1) Twenty feet long and weighing an estimated two thousand pounds, it is said to have killed between two and three hundred people. The only good thing you can say about...
THE ANTI-DEMOCRAT LAW
By Don C. Reed In World War Two Germany, if the Nazis were arresting you, they would say, “Ausweiss, bitte!” , meaning “Papers, please!” ) If you had the wrong ones, they would drag you off, or worse. The mis-named “SAVE America Act” is a voter suppression bill: very...
Recommending Paul Knoepfler
by Don C. Reed There are some people so valuable I wish the world could put a magic shield around them, to provide for their needs and protect them from harm. One such person is Paul Knoepfler, a professor at UC Davis School of Medicine. His lab focuses on the roles...
IS THE “SAVE ACT” IMPORTANT? (please share)
By Don C. Reed As you know, many elections are won by just a few thousand votes. But what if one party had an advantage of millions? President Donald J. Trump wants a bill to do just that give his party a head start of millions of votes. A bill with that power (the...
The Anti-Woman Voting Act
By Don C. Reed Republicans have a sneaky new bill called “the SAVE Act: the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act.“ (1) It seems harmless enough at first glance: the name on the birth certificate must exactly match the one on the voting material, or it is...
IF JONAS SALK WAS ALIVE TODAY: the Politics of Fetal Cell Research
By Don C. Reed The Trump Administration — for the second time — has blocked Federal funding of fetal cell research. (1) Does that matter? It might if you are old enough to remember polio, that hideous condition which slowly strangled sufferers to death. The only...
PROPOSITION 50 AND THE NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION
By Don C. Reed Many of us make a New Year’s resolution — and forget it right away. It’s understandable: We are busy with our lives, and don’t need any more chores. So — maybe we should just skip the whole process? I vote we try it anyway. Even the smallest improvement...
THE RETURN OF ROMAN’S LAW?
By Don C. Reed On September 10th, 1994, my son Roman Reed broke his neck in a college football game, and became paralyzed from the shoulders down. That was 30 years ago. But Roman never lost heart. “This is just temporary,” he would say. There were surprises ahead....
Don Reed's NEW BOOK - "Science, Politics, Stem Cells and Genes: California's War on Chronic Disease"
California’s War on Chronic Disease
By Don C. Reed, World Scientific Publishing, April 2023