White House Still Hiding Climate Change
I can’t feign surprise, but the Bush Administration is still fighting to keep us ignorant:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House severely edited congressional testimony given Tuesday by the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the impact of climate change on health, removing specific scientific references to potential health risks, according to [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“O, if men were to be saved by merit, what hole in hell
were hot enough for him?” —Henry IV, Part 1, 1.2.104-5
Gratuitous Video Feed (Rain Dance Edition)
Buddy Guy: “Feels Like Rain”
Flight 2008 to Bandwagon Now Boarding
Holy fair-weather friends, Batman! In a New Jersey city of less than 20,000 residents,
…[T]he entire membership of the all-Republican governing body in Lyndhurst will switch from Republican to Democrat tomorrow. Nearly 60% of Lyndhurst’s Republican County Committee will become Democrats too.
The party realignment, first reported in PoliticsNJ.com last summer, is far greater in [...]
Eyes on the Prize
I can nearly taste the relaxation. It’s probably too late in the year to enjoy a pool, but I can learn to maintain one and hope for an early spring. This is what I want to see when I eat my Cap’n Crunch.
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Experience, manhood, honour, ne’er before
Did violate so itself.” —Antony And Cleopatra, 3.10.23-24
The Children of the War Dead
They’re growing up. The New York Times reminds us that when you die in Bush’s wars, you stay dead, and your family must carry on without you. They don’t get you back.
LANCASTER, N.Y. — CamerynLee was only 3 years old when her father, Lance Cpl. Eric J. Orlowski, a Marine Corps reservist, was killed in [...]
Gratuitous Video Feed
Juliana Hatfield: “My Sister”
Whistleblower
Navy lawyer Lt. Cdr. Matthew Diaz lost his career trying to help the invisible detainees at Guantánamo Bay:
On May 18 this year, after a weeklong trial, a panel of seven naval officers convicted Diaz on four of five counts, including one of disclosing secret defense information that “could be used to the injury of the [...]
Rainy Night in Georgia
And thank the gods. The Dog River Reservoir is at its lowest level ever, and there’s a total ban on outside watering. We can use weather like this, which should continue into Thursday.
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