As you may have noticed, I haven't been posting as often as I used to. Things are settling down over here so I have a little more time to write, but first I want to dump all the articles I was storing for full posts ( Read more... )

Even some conservatives, such as David Brooks of the New York Times, have fallen for the nonsense that racism or an animosity toward the poor have anything to do with Hurricane Katrina. "The rich escaped while the poor were abandoned," claimed Brooks. Others note that there are a disproportionate amount of poor, black people who are affected by the ( Read more... )

A few things I picked up around the lj world today:

1) The reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse is that you cannot post "Thou Shalt Not Steal", "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery", and "Thou Shalt Not Lie" in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile working environment.

2) When NASA first ( Read more... )