Posts Tagged: News, Politics, Events
It's The Bestest Christmas Present Ever!!!
Posted by on Monday, December 19, 2011 in - 4 comments
I love when a dictator dies. Sadly, as with today's death of the North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, sometimes it isn't when surrounded by your subjects who are filling your body with bullets. But, nonetheless, ding dong the witch is dead. The British keep an oddly stiff upper lip: • Speaking today …
English-Speaking Atheists Lose Their Columnist Saint
Posted by on Friday, December 16, 2011 in - 9 comments
I can't say that I am particularly struck by the loss of Christopher Hitchens but its in the same way that I was not moved by the death of Steve Jobs. Like Jobs, Hitchens was something of a presentation of himself - not a bad thing in itself but it does distract from whether the output was as …
Your Friday Bullets For The End Of August
Posted by on Friday, August 26, 2011 in - leave a comment
It is the end of summer today. Not really. But it is. You know it. The air is cooling if you are not in Texas and, let's be honest, it is a relief. Visiting is pretty much over. You have seen who and what you want to see by now. You remember cords. I would be out buying cords this time of year in …
Friday Bullets For The Weekend Of Opening Day!
Posted by on Friday, April 1, 2011 in - leave a comment
Screw the election. It's fine as far as those things get you but the affairs of man bow to the affairs of life, the cycle of the seasons. The Giants and Dodgers were on last evening and LA took it in a one nothing game. Sad is life that we needs five months without baseball so that the other seven …
Dear Government Official, Promise Me It's OK...
Posted by on Monday, March 14, 2011 in - 5 comments
I've taught overseas and one of my co-workers even had a run in with useless Canadian embassy officials but this sort of stuns me in the face of one of the worst disasters in history: • A Toronto man living in Japan says the federal government is “providing no help” to Canadians wanting to know …
Friday Bullets For The Week The Rains Came
Posted by on Friday, March 11, 2011 in - leave a comment
Cold rains washed away the last of the sidewalk ice yesterday. With two full years now past since the deepest depths of the recession, it even has a feel like things are going to be different this year. This summer, I do things. Not like last summer. This year I will rearrange the shed. To make it …
Friday Bullets For Sticks And Stones Do Break Bones
Posted by on Friday, February 4, 2011 in - 1 comment
It's odd watching people get clubbed, pulled off horses and beaten, run down by a fire truck or having bottles filled with gasoline on fire dropped on them. But that has been what's on CNN at ten pm each night this week. I now follow Al Jazeera on Twitter which is a sentence that makes no sense …
So What Happens When You Turn Off The Internet?
Posted by on Sunday, January 30, 2011 in - leave a comment
Turn the internet off. Banks must stop operating, right? Bank machines spitting money must shut down as that is how they speak to the main frame. Government reliance on email and computer data bases sighs and packs it in. Amazing photos on Flickr still get out. The previously somewhat evil Al …
1974's Era Of The Conservative War On Free Media
Posted by on Friday, July 23, 2010 in - 23 comments
Sad news of the death of NPR's Daniel Schorr but there is an interesting note in the obit on conservative paranoia over the role of the news media: • For all the history that he reported, Dan Schorr will always be remembered for the moment he stood before live television cameras in 1974 with a …
Cell Phones Finally Have A Purpose
Posted by on Monday, March 29, 2010 in - leave a comment
Well, the car off the road situation is one thing but attacking tyranny is another: • The networks are the creation of a handful of North Korean defectors and South Korean human rights activists using cellphones to pierce North Korea’s near-total news blackout... The work is risky. Recruiters …
