March 2008
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I have been distraught over this Spitzer business. Another grotesque hypocracy, a pure unadulterated travesty. There simply aren’t any heroic men left, if ever there were.
December 2007
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A painful week - the New York Times reports US funds for Pakistan are misdirected, used for armaments aimed at conflict with India instead of fighting Al Qaeda. A few days later Bhutto is murdered, allegedly by Al Qaeda/Taliban operatives. In harmonious counterpoint at the start of the week, the butcher Modi is re-elected to head the state of Gujurat. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
November 2007
5 posts
US begins draw-down in Iraq
The first major pullout of American forces has begun —- a 5,000-troop brigade that will take overall numbers to 157,000 by mid-December. This is a page 8 story in the Times , and maybe I missed whatever fanfare surrounded this during the week, but it seems significant to me.
A fine counterpoint to this has been the waffling rhetoric from all corners about the “improved”...
Timothy Ferriss: former ‘food supplements’ purveyor, and now a ‘motivational speaker’ who gets his world news ‘from waiters’. Why are people listening to anything he says?
mr swaggert, mr haggard … and now maybe mr boone?
It does make me sad to hear San Francisco disparaged; let alone our fabulous history of tolerance and cultural diversity, and it remains a grand, albeit fairly tiny, city. But let *that* alone, and I am proud to live in a place that stands for values that hateful, hypocritical people like mr. boone deplore.
even tonight there is still ash falling out of the southern california sky; the chatter around town is the need to have underground power lines.
In all the years we’ve had big fires —- owing to forest mismanagment, rapid development, or whatever —- there has never been much improvement in planning or response. I don’t think we’ll see much come out of this either,...
watching with familiar frustration as the chargers give minnesota “more rushing yards than they have ever made”
October 2007
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jumping on the tumblr bandwagon, which is one slick UI bandwagon I must say