Uncle reminded me about something that’s been bothering me: Why is it that we have the technology to make a device small enough to fit in my pocket that is a phone, organizer, e-mail device, and camera; can successfully deploy a probe into space to collect material samples from a comet and recover said probe; [...]
Archive for January 18th, 2006
Technology
Posted in Food & Cooking on January 18, 2006 | 5 Comments »
Damn You, Colbert!
Posted in Food & Cooking, Humor, I do too have a life on January 18, 2006 | 9 Comments »
Colbert has been plugging BLTs all week, and I just couldn’t take it any more. BLTs were for dinner tonight. And whether he’s kidding or not, the BLT is a wonderful sandwich that doesn’t get the credit it deserves. Tomorrow’s cardiologists will be thanking me for today’s dinner — I’m helping to pay your bills.
Of Plantations and Politicians
Posted in Politics on January 18, 2006 | Comments Off
Hillary Clinton said that the House GOP runs the House like a plantation. Now, anyone with a brain realizes that means that Clinton thinks the House leadership treats its members as if they were slaves. The Right wing, sensing an opportunity to manufacture a crisis, has demanded an apology for this hyperbole. And I say [...]
Alito and Irresponsibility
Posted in Legal Issues, Politics on January 18, 2006 | Comments Off
This is a bit old, but I wanted to circle back to something that Alito said during his hearings in light of the Oregon assisted suicide case: And after I graduated from high school, I went a full 12 miles down the road — but really to a different world — when I entered Princeton [...]
Darfur: Canadian Religous Groups Pressure Candian Parties
Posted in Darfur on January 18, 2006 | Comments Off
An interfatih group in Canada is pressure the four major parties ahead of the federal elections to make Darfur a campaign issue. No one thiks it will have any effect on the elections.
Secrecy Makes the Country Less Safe
Posted in Politics on January 18, 2006 | Comments Off
It turns out that the NSA spying program was, despite Bush’s protestations to the contrary, enormous and completely useless: In the anxious months after the Sept. 11 attacks, the National Security Agency began sending a steady stream of telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and names to the F.B.I. in search of terrorists. The stream soon became [...]
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