Cancer for Christmas - Recommended

Posted this to FaceBook today: Been derelict in my duty to highly recommend friend Casey Quinlan's book, Cancer for Christmas. Casey has a lot to say about an important subject -- and boy, can she write! Don't miss it.

Edward R. Murrow is rolling in his grave.

I wrote this to CBS News this morning. "In your story on religion this morning you presented the despicable charlatan John Edward wholly uncritically, giving him a platform for his continued larceny as if he is an authority of some kind -- instead of a lying, thieving fraud who preys on others' grief. No rational, critical mind could fail to see his obvious "cold reading" (and probable warm reading) in his performance, yet you don't even mention the evidence that has been amassed against him. This is "news"? No. It's an embarrassing dereliction of duty on your part. Shame on you." See, for example, http://www.csicop.org/si/show/john_edward_hustling_the_bereaved/ and http://www.re-quest.net/entertainment/movies-and-tv/tv/john-edward/