A professional hit by the Mossad. Or not.
Why the world hate’s Americans. For the record, Haiti’s deforestation was caused by a demand for charcoal. How refraining from eating pig meat is going to fix that is anyone’s guess.
Rumors and more rumors.
It gets old to panic all the time. But the crises is still going strong. Here are some of the things that people are still worrying about.
What is the full extent of the problem?
Can the system handle the problem?
And can we solve the problem before the baby boomers start retiring en-mass?
Edit: Don’t forget jobs.
I have known for a long time that nobody really understands water. It pleases some evil part of me that something as common as water has stumped the best minds of men for so long. That confusion may or may not be over. Time will tell. But I still learned a lot I did not know about water’s weirdness from this article.
Speaking of water, it is now being blamed for 30% of Global Warming. Maybe this new bit of info will take some of the blame off the cows.
But my reading has not all centered around high minded things like water. I have also been following dark and mundane things like the rank fear that has been emanating out of Europe. It has gotten so bad that Hungary’s Minister of Finance is responding in full force to blog posts by Edward Hugh. Nothing against Edward Hugh, but when your country’s Minister of Finance fells compelled to address his arguments, you have serious problems. But as this Guardian article reminds us, Europe’s current problems are nothing considering what they are going to face.
Speaking of reading dark things, I have got some books by Gene Wolfe out of the library. I have seen his name splashed around here and there. But I don’t have much use for fiction these days. In spite of this, I was intrigued by the Wikipedia article about him. There was a lot of things that intrigued me. But they are all summed up in the first two lines…
Gene Wolfe (born May 7, 1931) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He is noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith, to which he converted after marrying a Catholic.
I don’t think I would have given the “dense, allusive prose” a second thought if had been for the part about being a Catholic. Something about the Catholic faith seems to be good at creating or attracting people who really get metaphor and symbolism. It will be interesting to see if Gene Wolfe falls into the same category or not.
It is more of a rant then an essay. It is too political correct when it comes to Haitian culture. Nonetheless, what this essay says about the aid agencies that are supposed to be helping the Haitians needs to be said. What is going on down there is a scandal.
Are copper pipes linked to Alzheimer’s? Perhaps. But one should keep in mind that correlation is not causation.
Just goes to show what you can accomplish if you are dedicated enough.
The UN’s top climate change body relies on rumor and hearsay.
Its pretty bad when CNN stays and helps while the doctors and nurses are leaving. If you wanted first world levels of security why did you go in the first place?
If history is any guide, more earthquakes are on their way to the Caribbean.
This week’s rant of the week is “Don’t give money to Haiti.”
Reading the comments would convince anyone that all conservatives/libertarians are greedy and self righteous and all liberals are stone cold stupid and driven completely by their emotions. The one thing that seems to unite Americans is their poor reading comprehension skills.
Is the US punishing Georgia for helping Israel?
Should Iceland be punished? Read the comments, the answer is not as clear cut as you might think. On the other hand, you can’t get blood out of a stone, so what does the U.K really hope to accomplish?
And it should be noted that it is not quite accurate to say that Iceland’s president vetoed the measure to pay back the U.KIceland. At least, he did not veto it in the way that Americans think of the word veto.