Irene's been downgraded from a Class 3 Hurricane to a Tropical Storm, proving that S&P just doesn't know when to quit ( Read more... )

I imagine I'm being unnecessarily cavalier in the face of danger, but I'm pretty sure by the time Irene kisses CT, she's going to be nothing more than a glorified thunderstorm with pretty skies. Duly deprived of worry, I got some work done on the bar-in-space short and might put it on the workshop later tonight after knocking down some crits. In ( Read more... )

via nwhyte: 5 things that scare the crap out of me about US politics - Jason O MahonyI think he's absolutely right. Each of these things in isolation might be effectively countermanded but together, in the words of Carl Weathers, "you got yourself a STEW!" I completely agree about the micromanaging of politics. As a Political Science major at Yale, I had ( Read more... )