The headline read Hungarian Law Criminalizing Homelessness! Some 30,000 to 35,000 men, women and children are pushed into living in the street in Hungary because of economic conditions and are now subject to criminal sanction. The law has all the earmarks of being inhuman, punitive, out of another era, belonging to an authoritarian regime. It…

The new film of well known filmmaker Werner Herzog is about those who live on death row in the United States. Herzog, 69, says that the purpose is to humanize murderers not to excuse their crimes. “The crimes of the persons in the film are monstrous, but the perpetrators are not monsters.” To illustrate the…

To you and me and most of us a linguine is a wet noodle, something bland only made useful if it is accompanied by a savory sauce. Not so for little Roma who turns two this week. To her a linguine is something soft and fun to explore. Soon it became a bracelet, and what…