In homage (or a sacrifice) to Hurricane Jimena (350 miles away at 12:00pm HST), I went looking through my collection for “Stormy Weather.” I found it on Portrait of Sinatra, a two-disc collection of recordings done while he was on the Columbia label. Say what you will about his personality and temper, the man could …
Does the President’s claim to be a “compassionate conservative” have any merit? …some religious supporters of Mr. Bush say they feel betrayed by promises he made as a candidate and now, they maintain, has broken as president. “After three years, he’s failed the test,” said one prominent early supporter, the Rev. Jim Wallis, leader of …
I’ve seen this movie before. I’ve replenished my battery supplies and checked the canned tuna/deviled ham cupboard, inspected the back yard for hanging plants, and tried to reassure my mother about Hurricane Jimena; who’s gonna reassure me?
As expected (see below), the energy industry just got a summer present in the form of relaxed rules for pollution control devices: …the Bush administration signed a rule that will allow thousands of power plants, refineries, pulp and paper mills, chemical plants and other industrial facilities to make extensive upgrades that increase pollutants without having …
Up is down and down is up: Abortion accusations block financing for yet another AIDS group, despite this admission: “State Department officials acknowledge that they have no evidence to suggest that Marie Stopes is involved in forced abortions or involuntary sterilization…” Doesn’t matter. Stopes works with the UN Population Fund, and that organization has been …
I have lots of things I can thank my parents for, but here’s one I still feel aggrieved about: on August 28, 1963, they did not allow me to go with them to the March on Washington. It’s hard to imagine now, but there was a lot of concern about whether the crowd might become …
Today, 25 years and 3 months after I moved here, I finally went out to the Arizona Memorial. The official photos are here; I only took a couple, which I’ll post later (or I won’t…they may be junk, after all). You enter the visitors center and take a ticket; that gets you into a movie …
Here’s an example of “if it bleeds, it leads:” Eli Lilly and Amylin issued a joint press release today about positive results they’d achieved for diabetes with a new drug called exenatide. For Reuters, the important thing was that exenatide is derived from the saliva of that ugly critter known as a Gila Monster. Blogging …
If you read political blogs, you’ll have noticed an emerging theme: are the Bush haters as numerous or as full of bile as the Clinton haters? It’s no contest. The Bush haters are nowhere near as virulent nor as willing to believe (and perpetuate) lies about their object of derision as the Clinton haters were …
I don’t know if I’ll have time to listen to this today, because I have company; my lawyer cousin, her lawyer husband, and their teenage son are visiting Hawai’i for the first time since my Dad’s funeral (10 years ago this week). Nonetheless, (and this is no commentary on my cousin and her family!), a …