Here are the coin toss picks for last week: Saints over Falcons Lions over Panthers Titans over Bengals *Ravens over Browns Steelers over Jaguars *Bucs over Dolphins Vikings over Bears Giants over Cowboys *Chiefs over Washington *Broncos over Patriots *Bills over Jets Raiders over Chargers *Seahawks over Texans Rams over Colts * = Correct pick.
Archive for October 21st, 2005
An Activist, Not an Editor . . . And Another, And Another, And Another . . .
Posted in Culture, Economics, General, Katrina, Politics on October 21, 2005 | 3 Comments »
Facing South catches an unbelievable display of Bush sycophancy among a large collection of supposedly independent newspaper editors across the country. At least 5 newspapers ran an editorial praising Bush for gutting worker protection laws on hurricane-cleanup projects, using exactly the same language, as the newspaper’s official editorial position (i.e., the voice of its own [...]
Random Friday Cuteness
Posted in Culture, I do too have a life on October 21, 2005 | Comments Off
Careful. These commericals exceed the government’s reccomended daily allwance of cuteness. Especially Texas Hold’em.
Seems that Miller originally “forgot” about her encounters with Scooter Libby: When a prosecutor first questioned Miller during her initial grand jury appearance on September 30, 2005 sources said, she did not bring up the June 23 meeting in recounting her various contacts with Libby, the chief of staff to Vice President Cheney. Pressed by [...]
Uh-Oh
Posted in Flame Bait, General on October 21, 2005 | 4 Comments »
Michelle Slatalla – a formerly good writer who has now been relegated to an online-home-accessories-shopping column (yes) by the New York Times – writes today about her children’s choices of Halloween costumes. (This is the woman who published a brilliant profile of the “Masters of Doom” hackers. Now she’s profiling her own 8-year-old daughter’s Halloween [...]
Man Bites Writer
Posted in Science, Writing on October 21, 2005 | Comments Off
Someone did a study that concluded that George Orwell’s writing was influenced by his personal history: Relying on Orwell’s own descriptions of the treatment, Ross says it “may have influenced the depiction of the tortures of Winston Smith in the Ministry of Love” in “1984.” Ross also figures Orwell drew from firsthand knowledge of the [...]
Never Rush A Good Meal
Posted in Katrina on October 21, 2005 | Comments Off
FEMA was worse than we could ever have imagined: In the midst of the chaos that followed Hurricane Katrina, a Federal Emergency Management Agency official in New Orleans sent a dire e-mail to Director Michael Brown saying victims had no food and were dying. No response came from Brown. Instead, less than three hours later, [...]
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