Sep 18 2007
I like to read the local NOLA blogs, one riffs off the other, you put ’em together and get a wonderful kaleidoscopic view of life in the great city of New Orleans.
Don’t have much to say, just wanted to share this video I found at Ashley Morris: The Blog of Clint Maedgen and the Preservation Hall Band.
Fuck George W. Bush!! Remember New Orleans!
Sep 18 2007
As economists, psychologists and biologists try to determine what makes a person happy or unhappy, one factor stands out as especially powerful. To a large degree, it seems, happiness is inherited.
Sep 18 2007
I was thinking about Editorial Policies this morning. I had two choices, well three….I chose the third one. I think its important to let folks know where you stand on like, issues and stuff.
Todays Issue:
Sep 18 2007
{Note: This was originally a comment on My Left Wing.}
Markos Moulitsas, I am here to tell you, is one of the finest examples of humanity that I have ever witnessed.
He is a gentlemen, a scholar, a philanthropist, and, when he is not helping little old ladies across busy streets in San Francisco, he can usually be found at the local orphanage handing out presents to the poor.
Some have said of Markos that he is a combination of Martin Luther King, Jr… Mahatma Gandhi… Mother Theresa… Albert Schweitzer.
Others have noted that, in person, Markos fairly glows with the sublime, transcendent radiance of a thousand suns; a radiance normally attributed to holy men and bodhisattvas.
Sep 18 2007
This is a wake up call. Right here. Look at this video. And look and scream and cry for what we don’t have in this country: LEADERSHIP.
A man, a student, is dragged away from a speech being given by Senator John Kerry yesterday in Florida. Kerry should have gotten down off the damned podium and stopped the officers from this awful act. The audience should have gotten up to stop it. THIS SHOULD NOT BE HAPPENING IN AMERICA.
What the fuck is going on here? What is happening to us? This is wrong. THIS IS WRONG.
Sep 18 2007
As economists, psychologists and biologists try to determine what makes a person happy or unhappy, one factor stands out as especially powerful. To a large degree, it seems, happiness is inherited.
Sep 18 2007
There’s a website I visit from time to time called Famous Birthdays, where you can see who shares your birthday (Ice Cube, Courtney Cox, James Belushi, and Waylon Jennings, among others, for me). You can also do other cutsie things like have your fortune told and send a greeting card.
I was really intrigued by today’s birthday list….for some reason it just seemed like a really unlikely cast of characters:
Sep 18 2007
disruption. the black bear in your back yard. the canada geese on the golf course. millions of iraqis sitting on the world’s second largest oil reserve. the spider crawling across your wall. the neighbor blowing his leaves for an ENTIRE afternoon.
Sep 18 2007
My views on rules for blogs have changed to, essentially, “I no longer care really”, except that I do still like them to be stated. But in reality, my views have not changed, because my views, such as they are, are a superset of ideas, various different and contradictory actions, only a few of which will be my position based on a particular context, based on whats going on at the time. The views some on this site remember me for were based on the Peer to Peer Phenomenon of Amazingness Roll through Politics like a Tornado leaving the blogosphere. It’s like a tornado from the twighlight zone, instead of turning trailer parks and suburbs into wreckage and waste it took the wreckage and waste of politics and turns it into trailer parks and suburbs.
Sep 18 2007
You can’t really blame George Bush. There are more zeroes in a yotta than George Bush or even Al Gore has fingers and toes. There might be many in Gore’s Tennessee that have sufficient fingers and toes, according to unverified reports, but evem those so blessed have perhaps gotten to wearing shoes which would greatly hamper their math abilities.
You see yotta is the number of joules of dependable, steady electric power that might theoretically be produced from Mother Earth’s own nuclear power plant in the crust of the earth. That is according to the calculations of MIT’s Professor Jon Tester and his panel of experts. Mother’s own heat might be mined without pollution of the atmosphere and poisoning of the earth for eons or a boon to nuclear bombers.
Sep 18 2007
First, a public service announcement-
| The Pastafarian Service Council wants to remind you that today, September 19th, be Talk Like A Pirate Day.
As Slushy the Polar Bear says- |
The Morning News is an Open Thread. Any resemblence to any other essays at any other sites is due to my inherent laziness and outstanding unoriginality.
Sep 18 2007
The Morning News is an Open Thread
From Yahoo News THE TOP STORY
1 Iraq expels American security firm
By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press Writer
13 minutes ago
| BAGHDAD – The Iraqi government announced Monday it was ordering Blackwater USA, the security firm that protects U.S. diplomats, to leave the country after what it said was the fatal shooting of eight Iraqi civilians following a car bomb attack against a State Department convoy.
The order by the Interior Ministry, if carried out, would deal a severe blow to U.S. government operations in Iraq by stripping diplomats, engineers, reconstruction officials and others of their security protection. The presence of so many visible, aggressive Western security contractors has angered many Iraqis, who consider them a mercenary force that runs roughshod over people in their own country. |