The US is getting the shaft in war making. Two invasions and two bloody, nasty quagmires. Rare is the Maureen Dowd column that is more than pancake face powder, or a shoe-horned turn at national…
Long ago, when in high school, I lost almost $100 somewhere after a shopping trip. My mother — always aware of how a bit means a lot, and even with the money being my own…
Massive toxic leaks into the environment can be horrible, whether it be the Gulf of Mexico or a horrible, incompetent-run war in Afghanistan. On Sunday, WikiLeaks (my laptop won’t load the group’s website) released a…
What? Me worry? (Illustration found here). Since the last time I’d posted, there’s been a shitload of weird, dangerous and dumb stuff happen, but most of it apparently hasn’t had enough stupidity involved to really…
Writing society: I remember when it was kind of cool to be a blogger. You’d walk around with a swagger in your step, a twinkle in your eye. Now it’s just humiliating. Blogging has become…
Of course, one can forgive Steve McCroskey for nearly-screaming demands at his wife. The airport manager was having a real-real neurotic day, was under intense, coronary-inducing pressure, and what the heck, an airliner was in great…
Just as I figured: Computers are intolerant, racially discriminatory and just creepy. Figuring out African-Americans was a problem for HP’s newest face-recognition gear: In the video, Wanda (Caucasian) and Desi (African American) — two employees at…
Must-read on the twisted-horror of the US Senate health care bill at FireDogLake. Politics and the human condition.
In the midst of bad news from many quarters, this latest does make one feel better. From Wired: That asteroid is Apophis, a 900-foot asteroid. Calculations released on Christmas Eve 2004 appeared to show that…
Copenhagen: Tempers flared Monday at the United Nations climate summit as poor nations staged a walkout to protest what they called inadequate aid offers from rich countries, and the U.S. and China jockeyed for position.…