“The administration will try to scapegoat FEMA or the state authorities. The show will go on.” (post) I love being right as much as the next guy. Just wish I could be right about something positive for a change.
My god. Two days is all it took. Two days without water, food, and electricity. In two days a vibrant, bustling city of almost a million was reduced to a flooded, lawless wasteland where people shoot at the authorities they criticize for not coming to help them. Where thugs loot Read more
Bush says now we are staying because leaving would weaken the US. Huh? *scratch of the head* Were we any weaker BEFORE we put 130,000 US citizens there at the cost of hundreds of billions of dollars that could have been spent actually fighting terrorists?
I had to mention this. The latest reason we are staying in Iraq: to honor the fallen dead. I’m sure the ghosts of all those who died would want exactly that, for more of their comrades to be killed by the people they are “liberating”. I actually am not in Read more
As cynical as I have become about the Bush administration and the war in Iraq, there are certain milestones in the development of a new nation that make you stop and question for a second if it may have all been worth it. The first moment like that for me Read more
This is why I love technology. And scientists. Some smart dudes at Harvard developed a new process that cuts the costs of sequencing a human genome to 1/9th of its current cost of $20 million. Now, for a paltry $2.2 million, you can have your own genome sequenced. So, to Read more
In a little more than seven hours I’ll be on my way to Russia. I’m going for a week as part of my MBA program, to do an immersion in a different business culture and environment and broaden our knowledge of how business is done around the world. I have Read more
The results are back. I have only one thing to say. All you dispicable people who sent hate mail to Michael Schiavo, and all you Republican politicans who ran back to Congress to get special laws passed to violate an American’s civil rights, and Jeb and George Bush, and even Read more
Is blogging protected as free speech? I’ve now read at least three articles about people being fired for what they say in their blogs. Here’s the latest story. Naturally, there are some things that should just be common sense: Don’t talk shit about your boss or your coworkers Don’t reveal Read more
It may very well be that years from now people will look back at this week and say “that was the turning point for the European Unionâ€. On Wednesday the French, whose former President DRAFTED much of the constitution, voted against it in a referendum. The talking heads on the Read more