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Small yay for the CTA
Well, it looks like I'll still have a bus route to ride on Monday: CTA "Doomsday" Averted. Still rather annoyed at the constant brinksmanship going on here ( Read more... ) -
Heh heh, Gregg Easterbrook
There are a lot of wankers out there in the mainstream media, but there's only one that I've actually emailed to tell him so: Alleged sports writer Gregg Easterbrook. As they note at Sadly, No, plenty of people are wrong about plenty of things plenty of the time, but it takes a special kind of guy to be constantly wrong on a wide variety of ( Read more... ) -
Signs 'o the times...
The lot next to my office building, intended as the site of an ambitious luxury condominium project, has been tilled and seeded with grass. Apparently the development plans are on hold indefinitely, due to financing problems ( Read more... ) -
A bit of Nobel trivia...
After seeing the news this morning about Al Gore winning the Nobel Peace Prize (along with the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, but how many people can name one of them), my first thought was: "Wow, more than a few people are going to have a fit over this." Heh, I'm so mature. I blame all of those foul-mouthed liberal bloggers I've ( Read more... ) -
So why is the US rattling sabers against Iran now?
Considering the long history of hostility between the United States and Iran, one might wonder why it's only now that a US administration is talking seriously about military action. Iran has not made any especially agressive moves lately, unless one counts Ahmadinejad's recent visit to New York. There is no credible evidence that Iran is close to ( Read more... ) -
I wasn't going to say anything about 9/11...
I think I've said all I want to say about that specific day, already. What happened then, and what has happened since, is a fait accompliBut I did have this simple thought today: It's so tempting to look at a calamity of this kind and see it as vindication. "See! This confirms what I've always thought ( Read more... ) -
LiveJournal is serious business, but first...
a silly quiz:
(st_salieri, you dirty snitcher you.) ;)
So... I've been reading back through some of the classic Harry Potter "race wanks", and two things occur to me:
1) There's a big difference between moral clarity and moral simplicity... sadly, too many fans don't get this. While that's often described as a typically American failing, I see it in ( Read more... ) -
We're paying market prices for gasoline. Seriously.
Oops. I just clicked, accidentally, on a link in a MoveOn.org email that urged members to add their names to a petition against oil company price gouging. With all due respect to the MoveOn folks, I think they're buying into a simplistic explanation for our gasoline woes, and supporting a bit of political grandstanding that won't accomplish a thing ( Read more... ) -
Jeez, I was kidding about Jerry Falwell being reincarnated as a tapeworm...
But it's actually appropriate, I think. A tapeworm is a destructive parasitic creature, and the late, unlamented Rev. Falwell was ( Read more... )