This is disturbing, even though much of it is not really unexpected; it’s USA Today’s take on Web use by terrorist organizations. If you wander through urban downtowns and see odd-looking graffiti, it may no longer be gang tagging; it may, in fact, be the geeky equivalent of hobos marking houses offering free or cheap …
Dear Mssrs. Selig, Torre and Brenly, Could you have found no other solution to your pitcher shortage last night than cancellation of the game? Each of the 41,871 people in the stands had paid up to $175 ($175!!) for a ticket to watch; and the only thing you could come up with was “Oops, sorry?” …
I’ve been wondering when the chapter and verse about Eric Shaeffer’s departure from his job as chief enforcement officer at EPA would come. Now it has. (Link lifted from Lavonne, with thanks). It appears that in his prior life, Mr. Bush too felt that being a corporate director meant never having to conform to SEC …
Digital art memorializes September 11; it can be found here. It’s quite something; reminiscent in some ways of the Vietnam Memorial. For more frivolous thoughts, perhaps you should renegotiate your contract with the television content purveyors. Revitalize the prison system of rehabilitation through education; how often have we heard this? In Ireland it appears to …
Here’s the drill for jury pool summonses: you get the notice and you’re told to call the night before your scheduled appearance for a recorded message, which will tell you whether it’s still on for the following day or not. So I called tonight after 5:00pm, as instructed, and listened for the message pertaining to …
In two days America has lost three of its finest citizens to age: Ted Williams, baseball player par excellence; John Frankenheimer, an extraordinary filmmaker; and Gen. Benjamin O. Davis, leader of the Tuskegee Airmen. Mr. Williams passed away on Friday, thus the newspapers have had time to publish many tributes, in New York, Washington, and …
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the …
So what’s it to be on the Fourth, folks, slow-cooked low-heat barbeque or quick-cooked high-heat grilling? Somehow I’ve missed living in locations which have heated debates about the authenticity of their particular version of BBQ, so I’m open for whatever tastes good. Beef brisket, pork shoulder, tomato-based sauce, whatever. If grilling, then what? Steaks, dogs …
Goodness; I hope the authors of this report about Arab life are wearing shields; they are going to need them. It always hurts worse to be criticized from within, and the authors are all Arab. The Cheney Presidency. Who knew it packed this much into such a brief period? More Administration news: you can now …
Once again, the Administration shows more interest in principal rather than principle. “Women’s rights in places like Afghanistan are important to me, as long as they don’t offend the right wing of my party” appears to be the message here. I’m reminded of the late Senator Tsongas’ line in the primaries in 1992, when he …