I was flipping through Time today and saw a picture of the new pope. I hadn’t seen his picture before. So, I guess I’m not the only one that noticed that he looks a little demon posessed, if not pretty much like Lucifer himself. Actually, I take that back. He looks like the Emperor from [...]
Claims that terrorist want “nothing but death and destruction” are naive and counter-productive. Their goals are much more subtle and sophisticated and we’d do well to understand them better.
Some interesting first hand accounts from the New Orleans & Superdome are popping up as well as the start of at least one documentary.
Larry Bradshaw and Lorrie Beth Slonsky are paramedics from San Francisco. Their account includes being turned away from the Superdome, lied to, shot at and had their food and water stolen by [...]
China is going to build “the world’s first genuinely eco-friendly city”, Dongtan. It will be built on what is currently farmland near Shanghai and be about 3/4 the size of Manhattan. China plans to use it a model for future eco-friendly development in China.
“Priority projects include the process of capturing and purifying water in the [...]
I feel it’s wrong for elected officials to accept money or gifts from people. All elections should be 100% publicly funded.
Think Progress has put together a well-documented Katrina Timeline that shows how our nation’s leaders responded to the Katrina crisis. Pretty amazing. Rumsfeld went to a baseball game while they bombed levees to save higher priced real estate, Condoleezza went shopping on 5th Avenue while people were being raped in the convention center, Bush [...]
On the way back home from Burning Man after hearing some updated news from my mom on the situation in New Orleans, perhaps it’s strange but I wondered what the headline in The Onion was. So clever, those Onion editors. They always have a way of being funny while touching some truth. I also liked [...]