Today's Boston Globe articles

1. Climate Change Legislation: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/04/25/climate_consensus_collapses_in_senate/

This is a troubling sign. Climate change should deserve greater attention than immigration reform (although both are important!). But I think that crux is not Senator Graham's only reason.

2. Medicare Law: http://www.boston.com/business/healthcare/articles/2010/04/25/the_times_and_trials_of_dr_ahmed/

This case presents another type of law versus ethics dilemma. I would side with the government since a doctor's concern for his patients does not justify defrauding the government. The doctor's financial windfall also sets him liable.

3. Immigration Law: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/04/25/arizona_immigration_law_draws_praise_outrage_in_boston/

The Arizona code is unusually strict and maybe unconstitutional. What is reasonable suspicion? Will stop and frisk really be racially neutral? Why should a warrant not issue before arrest?

4. Scientific Geography: http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2010/04/25/new_atlas_shows_the_state_of_nature_as_well_as_the_nature_of_states/

A project like this is overdue. Mapping ecosystems and cataloging species will be helpful for scientific study and preservation efforts.

5. British Election: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2010/04/25/british_debaters_youre_no_jack_kennedy/

They are not becoming American: they are adopting an innovative election mode that happens to be popularized in America. Doesn't matter, TV debates or no, G. Brown is finished.

6. Freedom and Technology: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/04/25/despite_forecasts_freedom_takes_more_than_technology/

I agree: technology merely facilitates the pursuit of freedom. It can also help to oppress. Freedom depends on how individual citizens harness the technology.

7. Religious Pluralism: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/04/25/separate_truths/

I partly agree: what all religions share is a common ethical goal that encompasses leading good lives and fostering goodness among others and our world. Religions nonetheless are different in themselves and should not treated as a mere melting pot.

8. Education Curriculum: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/04/25/learn_this_america/

Ha! Those provincial people on the Texas school board should read this. Although by their standards and knowledge, they likely won't get what it's about.

9. Massachusetts Politics: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/articles/2010/04/25/not_red_yet/

I agree: Scott Brown's win was an aberration. It is unlikely that the state will become red in the near future. Republican and Tea Party surges in the Bay State are creditable, but still too scanty to drive down the Democrats.

10. Faith and Rationalism: http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2010/04/25/blinded_by_parascience/

The so-called "parascience" seems unfounded. I doubt that scientists like Freud would consciously exclude alternative explanations of faith and mind from their work. Plus, their scientific methods and rationales are too different to classify under an umbrella like parascience.