THE PRIMARY PURPOSE of this web is to call attention to conditions in the United States that are terribly wrong, and suggest possible ways to make improvements.

If you don't get anything else from this website, at least get The China Study.

See the Health Notes page.

A SECONDARY PURPOSE is to share some memories that I treasure, both good and bad, in the hope that others may find benefit or pleasure.

"We have met the enemy, and they are us!" Here…

To give some background and why this subject is so important to me, I have always had health problems of one sort or another.  The most serious was a severe case of hepatitis in 1971, followed by cancer in 1972. I had no treatment for the hepatitis; it just cleared up by itself.  I had surgery and an initial round of chemotherapy for the cancer, but refused the rest of the planned chemotherapy, in favor…

A message to pass on...

We heard recently from someone who returned from India. Her group met with the Dalai Lama for several days. The meetings focused on dialoguing what they believed were the 5 most important questions to be considered moving into the new millennium. The group was asked to come up with five questions before meeting with the Dalai Lama.

They asked:

1. How do we address the widening gap between rich and poor?

2. How do…

OUR HOME IN SPACE

Relative to Earth, the Sun is a gigantic thermal power plant; relative to the Milky Way it is a tiny luminous point of medium brightness that would be hard to find in the outer arms of the spiral.  And this point of light is circled by a blue speck, a million times smaller, on which a very strange species roams of late, regarding itself as very big and important.
Gerard Staghun, US…

SAILING DAYS

    These two pictures - left and next below - are of a fish class boat belonging to the St. Petersburg Yacht Club.  They were taken about 1944.
Left - Miles in Navy uniform.

    Left - Sailing with my mother on Tampa Bay.
    On the left is Dr. Bill Jennings' 42-foot schooner "Mistress."  The small boat being towed is the pram that I built.  "Doc Jennings" later became Commodore of the St. Petersburg…