Environmental disasters are nothing new, neither are financial disasters, and both are man made for the way-most part. The on-going ‘Occupy Wall Street’ demonstration, which is gaining a shitload of traction the last few days,…
Everyday appears a mystery, and the mystery more wonderful. ‘Light at dawn, shone through clouds, thick with weather. Even in the gray a beauty of quiet, potent perplexity Awaiting this day. A most-astonishing sight.’ Poetry…
“If this works out, we’ll have the ability to track people persistently across wide areas,†says Tim Faltemier, the lead biometrics researcher at Progeny Systems Corporation, which recently won one of the Army contracts. “A…
(Illustration found here). Early Tuesday here on California’s northern coast and listening to neighbors act like loud assholes at this early hour makes me want to scream, lash out into the dark, pierce the clear,…
“If you don’t want it to be the most expensive year [for gasoline prices,] you’re surreptitiously rooting for an economic debacle.†— Tom Kloza of the Oil Price Information Service (via the Washington Post last…
Life has become back-ass backwards: Obese people now outnumber the hungry globally, but hardship for the undernourished is increasing amid a growing food crisis, the International Federation of the Red Cross warned on Thursday. ……
Once in a while, I come across something that both deeply saddens and pisses me off to no frickin’ end. In the horrific display of cold-hearted meaness overflowing in the two recent GOP presidential debates…
malism: The doctrine that this world is evil — (HEADWORD) pessimism. When George Jr. ordered the US invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001 — another decade gone — according to Andrew Kohut, president of the…
(Illustration found here). Being poor is getting further down and dirty. In an age where money is getting scarce for those on the bottom rung of the economic ladder, the prospects for any kind of…
In the wake of all the solemn ceremonies this past weekend during the 9/11 commemorations and all the chatter of a possible terrorist attack during the proceedings, the US is still full of fright for…