For a temporary reprieve from Katrina news, I’ll post an article here that I spotted a few days ago, and unlike emergency management or politics is regarding a subject that I can actually speak with some authority on. ZDNet reported on Thursday that the state of Massachusetts has decided to eliminate their dependence on Microsoft [...]
Glad to see my alma mater offering up some assistance for students and faculty displaced by Katrina. Even more importantly, the University of Pennsylvania is offering three weeks off for any faculty or staff who feel the need to travel to the Gulf Coast and volunteer. Says President Amy Gutmann: “We felt it important to [...]
If you’ve been watching any of the cable news channels in the past few days you’ve undoubtedly seen FEMA director Mike Brown being torn a new one by a variety of anchors. Just go anywhere on the web to see the many examples of his incompetence. Now via Talking Points Memo, comes news from the [...]
Rehnquist is dead. I guess we’ll all play the “what a great man he was” game but this is the guy who was against a woman’s right to choose, gay rights, privacy in the home, protecting rape victims, for executing minors and the mentally retarded, and presided over both impeaching Clinton for a blowjob and [...]
Ok, I thought my anger had temporarily run its course, but the sheer disregard that this president shows for the hundreds of thousands of people currently in harm’s way is truly disgusting. Check what the White House seems to find important today. The RNC, not to be upstaged in callousness by the White House, sent [...]
I don’t really know what to say about Hurricane Katrina and it’s devastating aftermath throughout the Gulf Region. It seems like every day things just get continuously worst. For an informational update I’ll point you towards a long post that Matt is continously updating. Meanwhile, if you haven’t already watched Bush’s “speech” from yesterday, head [...]
The New York Times is reporting that Iraqi leaders will Present Charter Without Agreement From Sunnis. Nix good my friends.
I wonder if today is the day that historians will look back and mark as the beginning of the end for the Bush administration’s experiment in Iraq. As of 10:32 AM EST the Associate Press is reporting that the Iraqi Parliament is giving up on the constitution (and consequently, the final defense of this war [...]
I wrote this yesterday morning: It’s first thing in the morning, and while I really need to get to work, I flip on CNN to find myself confronted with wordless live coverage of protesters in a synagogue in Gaza, lying on the ground with their arms linked while soldiers struggle to drag them out into [...]
A Virginia based company; Space Adventures is offering space tourists a trip around the moon. The company is working with Russian space officials and the voyage will take between 10-21 days, depending partly on the itinerary and whether the trip includes a stop at the International Space Station. (For my money, please, make the stop [...]
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