A Foley-free post.

* Well, this isn't good.... Global warming is projected to cause massive drought in the next hundred years. This is apparently the first time they've modelled drought specifics with a supercomputer climate modelling program, and the result is extensive and severe droughts... which could still be under-estimates ( Read more... )

... at least for two days.

Israel has called a temporary ceasefire in southern Lebanon to investigate the deaths of over fifty civilians.

Israel has agreed an immediate 48-hour suspension of air strikes over southern Lebanon to allow an investigation into the death of more than 50 civilians ( Read more... )

I knew my girl Maureen Down was gonna have some good shit to say on this nightmare. ( Out of the cameras' range, and avoided by W., was a convoy of thousands of sick and dying people, some sprawled on the floor or dumped on baggage carousels at a makeshift M*A*S*H unit inside the terminal. )

Halliburton got the Katrina clean-up contract.

How... why... how... FUCK. *head explodes*

In other news, today's insufferably smug conservative "Prickly City" comic strip was particularly irritating: ( Read more... )

There are no emoticons brutal enough for how fucking furious this makes me.
According to Drudge, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has recently enjoyed a little Broadway entertainment. And Page Six reports that she’s also working on her backhand with Monica Seles. So the Gulf Coast has gone all Mad Max, women are being raped in the Superdome, ( Read more... )