From AOL/ AP: Japan ordered emergency workers to withdraw from its stricken nuclear plant Wednesday amid a surge in radiation, temporarily suspending efforts to cool the overheating reactors. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said the workers, who have been dousing the reactors with seawater in a frantic effort to stabilize their temperatures, had no choice but to pull back from the most dangerous areas…

In her book “The Age of American Unreason”, published in 2008 and “revised and updated” in 2009, author Susan Jacoby seeks to explain the cultural influences on a large portion of the working and middle class population that causes them to continuously act and vote against their own interests.

From AOL: In surprisingly swift action and aggressive language, the 22-member Arab bloc said after an emergency meeting that the Libyan government had “lost its sovereignty.” It asked the United Nations to “shoulder its responsibility…

A knowledgeable participant in the treatment of heroin addicts in Lancaster County (and elsewhere) stopped by for lunch and a discussion of heroin addiction and treatment in Lancaster County.

The local methadone clinic, Addiction Recovery Systems located in East Hemphill, has approached full licensed capacity, treating approximately 400 patients with either methadone or Suboxone, the latter a form of Buprenorphine which inhibits abuse. Both methadone and Suboxone are opioids imbibed daily in a controlled fashion that avoids peaks and valleys so as to enable people to live normal and productive lives.

Bravo! And another for the editor’s wonderfully pithy, and understated, postscript!

For myself, the outrage is spreading to the courts since the Molly Henderson lawsuit in Chester County Court still sits unheard after years. The phrase, “Justice delayed is justice denied” comes to mind. Her public reputation, her good name, which she so deserved and which was taken away because she dared to carry out her duty to the public is an outrage that continues.

Listening to General Jack Keane former Vice chief of Staff, U. S. Army explain General David Patraeus’ Afghanistan strategy on the March 9th Charlie Rose show was like being back in the 1960’s and 1970’s and listening to generals William Westmoreland and Maxwell Taylor. Keane was echoing the approaches of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Henry Kissinger.

AOL: The Wisconsin Senate succeeded in voting Wednesday to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from public workers, after Republicans outmaneuvered the chamber’s missing Democrats and approved an explosive proposal that has rocked the state and unions nationwide.

“You are cowards!” spectators in the Senate gallery screamed as lawmakers voted. Within hours, a crowd of a few hundred protesters inside the Capitol had grown to several thousand, more than had been in the building at any point during weeks of protests…

About once a week, I am asked to bring in a team somewhere and demonstrate the hacking of a voting system. I don’t, because I’ve concluded this is a form of insanity, tracking the old adage that insanity is repeating the same behavior over and over again and expecting a different result.

“This cements much more firmly the reality that marijuana use in adolescence is a risk factor, along with the other genetic, environmental and socioeconomic risk factors, for developing psychosis,” said Dr. Kathryn Kotrla, associate dean and professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine in Round Rock.