The Kelo case blows up. Pfizer the pirate decides not to build in New London after all.

All indications are that AML is gone forever, but excerpts from Afflicted Powers conveniently linked again here.

( For what it's worth )

Parties have been sparse but good. At work we had a potluck on Friday. Saturday night was the Sierra Club party, with plenty of food, and Ride of the Mergansers, which is a pretty cool little film. Last night went to my sister's house for what used to be Christmas dinner, but now that my niece is married, we have Christmas dinner with her in-laws. ( Read more... )

Ice skating has begun. The rink opened Wedenesday night and I've been there every day, and will continue to do so every free day until it closes at the end of February. Thanksgiving was good, but not vegan, or even vegetarian. We'll never get the family to make that kind of change.

( Still trying to keep track of things )

Nevada Rep opened The Increased Difficulty of Concentration last night. It's a fun play. Of course, Weird Romance last week was fun, and it said something. This one is mostly slapstick, sort of like a vaudeville show with a story wrapped around it. It's worth the trip. It was snowing after the show. Snow at the end of September must be some kind of ( Read more... )

One thing needs saying. Too many of those book titles I linked to in the last post turn out to belong to pretty awful books. I browsed through them over the weekend. Intriguing titles and intriguing chapter titles, but nothing worth reading. Well, actually I borrowed one which might be good. A pretty good experience was the TMCC theater production ( Read more... )

( The same cognitive-dissonance-reducing myths and rationales of Vietnam are surfacing again in Iraq--with the same disastrous results )

Another ice skating session at Squaw Valley. There were eight of us, one way or another, but we didn't all hook up for everything. Three of us went swimming. Five of us ice skating. A different set of five hooked up for dinner. We stayed in Squaw Valley for dinner, at the Irish pub, which was okay, but I think Truckee would have been more ( Read more... )

Note to self: Forget the goofy conspiracy theories. Peak oil didn't make us do it. Israel didn't make us do it. The real conspiracy behind the invasion of Iraq is more byzantine and bizarre than can be imagined, yet quite simple when laid out right. Greg Palast lays it out right. I know Palast is a gatekeeper and disinformationist and probably has ( Read more... )

In the brave new world of the future, everything is a commodity, everything has a price tag. And everything must be controlled. For that is what it is really all about: control. Control of everything. Control of real estate, control of markets, control of resources, control of society, control of information, control of knowledge, control of life ( Read more... )