Tsunami Reliefis a page by google linking news and charities that can help. This could very well be the worst natural disastor in modern history. Entire nations have been decimated, and recovering could take years. Please, give what you can. Thank you.
Archive for December, 2004
Tsunami Help
Posted in General on December 29, 2004 | Comments Off
An Upstanding Man
Posted in Politics on December 29, 2004 | Comments Off
Josh Marshall catches the President’s staff being petty Earlier yesterday, White House spokesman Trent Duffy said the president was confident he could monitor events effectively without returning to Washington or making public statements in Crawford, where he spent part of the day clearing brush and bicycling. Explaining the about-face, a White House official said: “The [...]
The Philosopher-Mayor and the Clowns
Posted in Culture, Politics on December 29, 2004 | 9 Comments »
Bogota, Colombia, elected an academic philosopher as its mayor and got 420 clowns. We elected an idiot as president and got an administration full of clowns. They’re way ahead of us. This article describes the unusual incumbency of Bogota’s recent mayor – an “outside reformer” candidate who set about upgrading a notoriously inefficient and corrupt [...]
Medicare by the Numbers
Posted in Health, Politics on December 28, 2004 | 7 Comments »
Coming late to the party on this one: the National Center for Public Policy Research (conservative but apparently not too crazy) has put together a telling “Harper’s Index”-style fact sheet on the Medicare “reform” bill. Some eye-openers: Estimated pages in the Medicare bill reported out of Conference Committee: 1,100 Pages in the Clinton Health Security [...]
Right-Hand Twist: Ann Coulter Makes Being an Asshole Fun!
Posted in Culture, Politics, Religion on December 28, 2004 | 28 Comments »
Ann Coulter’s official “beyond the fringe” moment was September 13, 2001, when she wrote her infamous post-9/11 column advocating that, in dealing with Muslims, we should “invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity.” Normal people regarded this as somewhat unhinged; Coulter has spent the last three years proving it wasn’t unusual [...]
Social Security Poem
Posted in Satire on December 27, 2004 | Comments Off
Madeleine Begun Kanehas another satire up. She could also use a fewmoe votes in about.com’s blog contest.
Why The Defenseof Rumsfeld?
Posted in Iraq on December 27, 2004 | Comments Off
Jeff Cooper highlights something that has me completely perplexed – -the steadfast conservative defense of Rumsfeld: The president has never liked being questioned. It comes through in his rare press conferences; it came through with stark clarity in his debates with John Kerry. But answering questions is one of the centerpieces of accountability. And to [...]
Tsunami Help
Posted in Bloggin on December 27, 2004 | 15 Comments »
Red Cross Red Crescent have a fund set up for help with the Tsunami and earthquake recovery in Asia. This is a truly horrific catastrophy, the equivalent of ten 9/11s. I know its the end of the holiday season, and a lot of people will be tapped out, but please give what you can. Thank [...]
12 Days of Xmas VIII
Posted in Holiday on December 24, 2004 | Comments Off
Well, I didn’t make twelve, but I thought I would leave you with this: On December 7, 1914, Pope Benedict XV suggested a temporary hiatus of the war for the celebration of Christmas. Though Germany readily agreed, the other powers refused. Even without a cessation of war for Christmas, family and friends of the soldiers [...]
A Winter Wonderland
Posted in I do too have a life on December 23, 2004 | Comments Off
There is about an inch of ice/snow on the roads outside my house. Kids are sledding down the street (my house is at the bottom of a hill), and I had to help push my neighbor’s Xterra off an iced-over curb. Memphis really needs to invest in some snow plows. We have salt trucks (26), [...]
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