Catnmus, the Raving IndependentWherein I curse madly on all sorts of topics, and probably talk about my cats, too, at some point.(Untitled)- April 9, 2006 Today's news - the obvious and the absurd First, the obvious. This article lays out the deception by the Bush administration over Iraq's WMD claims. Nothing surprising here, except for the fact that this article was not on the front page, or even really in the front section. It was on an inner page of the "Nation and World" section, which is technically part of "section A" but the stuff that's not news or opinion, but just background. Yeah, I know, that might be where it.http://blogs.salon.com/0001787/2006/04/09.html#a605 (Untitled)- April 9, 2006 Marriage of ideas - nuclear waste and space elevators New Scientist, March 4. An article about nuclear waste disposal. It gives a pretty detailed description of the new site being developed in Sweden. Still under construction, it has become one of the town's top tourist attractions. School kids take field trips there. It sounds pretty cool. And people in Sweden are not saying, "Not In My BackYard." Which is nice. Owning up to their disposal...http://blogs.salon.com/0001787/2006/04/08.html#a604 (Untitled)- April 8, 2006 Women that are smarter than Lawrence Summers (Second in a new, occasional series.) I decided to start this new feature where I will be highlighting stories from my science magazines where the women achieved successes that the men had not, or where the addition of a woman to a team helped the team achieve success where previous, all-male teams had not. This is not in any way meant to imply that men are stupid or that they aren't as smart as women. However, the best way to show...http://blogs.salon.com/0001787/2006/04/07.html#a603 (Untitled)- April 7, 2006 Frog Walk Update! Gee, who'd've guessed that the actual authorization for the leaking of information about Joseph Wilson and his wife Valerie Plame came from the esteemed (in his own mind) "President" Bush I guess this is just proof that he can't find his own ass with both hands and a flashlight. Back in what, 2003 he forcefully and in no uncertain terms said that whoever was responsible for those leaks would be fired. Well, "sir", that appears to have been .......http://blogs.salon.com/0001787/2006/04/06.html#a602 (Untitled)- April 2, 2006 Christian rock concert to save our kids, or just another marketing ploy So I'm reading the paper this week, and I see that there's this huge Christian rock concert planned for San Francisco. ""Battle Cry for a Generation" is led by a 44-year-old Concord CA native, Ron Luce, who wants "God's instruction book" to guide young people away from the corrupting influence of popular culture. Luce, whose Teen Mania organization is based in Texas, kicked off a three-city "reverse rebellion" tour.http://blogs.salon.com/0001787/2006/04/01.html#a601 (Untitled)- April 1, 2006 A letter to my senators "To: Sen. Barbara Boxer, Sen. Dianne Feinstein Consider the law of supply and demand. The war on drugs concentrates not on the users, but on the distributors. So should the "war" on illegal immigration. But in the issue of immigration, the "supply" is not the illegal immigrant workers - they have essentially no power. The "supply" that is feeding this system is JOBS, not the workers to perform those jobs. The companies that illegally employ..http://blogs.salon.com/0001787/2006/03/31.html#a600 |