Item: Citizens are concerned about online privacy and security. According to a new report from USC’s Center for the Digital Future, “Sixty-one percent of adult Americans said they were very or extremely […]
Blackwater fades into the men in the Greystone suits…
After the debacle of last September’s murder of Iraqi civilians, many Americans held out hope that Blackwater, former Navy Seal and right wing evangelical Erik Prince’s guns-for-hire to the Busheviks operation located […]
I-35W bridge and the nation's infrastructure: Little has changed
If someone dumped 99 tons of sand on you, and you weren’t in good shape, you’d collapse, too. The National Transportation Safety Board has released its fifth update of its investigation of […]
Quotabull
It’s fair to ask whether a college kid should have to wash dishes in the dining hall to pay his tuition when his college has a billion dollars in the bank. — […]
VerseDay: Slow, slow fresh fount – how to control your words and your emotions…
A couple of weeks ago I spoke with you about poetry of ideas. Today’s entry will look at poetry that controls emotion. The poet pictured above is Ben Jonson – “O rare […]
How US News is hurting our high school students
by JS O’Brien Three-year-olds can be very trying, and not least because, once they find something that works for them, say, some action that made adults laugh, they’ll do it over and […]
3rd annual Bring Your Daughter to War Day called a success
The Weekly Carboholic: ARGO ocean data raises climate questions
According to this story from National Public Radio, data from autonomous ocean probes have detected no aggregate ocean warming since the probes came online in 2003. The Argo system comprises 3,000 probes […]
John McCain = Herbert Hoover?
First there’s this quote from Bloomberg about why Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are having their surplus capital requirements eased: The worst housing slump since the Great Depression is being exacerbated by […]
Mission accomplished, part deux (and part trois?)
What is it with George Bush and his halfwitted predilection for declaring victory before the fight is over? Bush speech hails Iraq ‘victory’President George W Bush has delivered a speech to mark […]
