It’s just the news is so damn depressing Who wants to write about the crap in today’s headlines? I just sat down and ran thru the headlines — again — and it’s just one awful thing after another. Sure there’s some “good” news here and there, like Ben Ownby and Shawn Hornbeck being returned to [...]

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The Philippines is in the news this morning with a large (but not unusual) prison break. These things happen now and then, and there are no reports if those escaped were dangerous prisoners or simply normal MILF supporters. Then there was a terrible explosion of a truck carrying liquid petrolium gas. This was in Zamboanga, [...]

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The Auto Theft Prevention Authority (ATPA) released statistics indicating that, through diligent citizen action, Detroit saw a 12.8 percent decline in auto-thefts from 2004 to 2005 (the last year for which figures are available) — the 16th such decline in the last 18 years. Furthermore, in the last 18 years auto thefts across Michigan have [...]

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I haven’t said much about the global warming debate, as I’m not well read on natural sciences. Overall I’ve tended to think warming is real, partially man-made and a serious (but not catastrophic) problem. This story made me think a bit though. A new report claims there’s a 90 percent chance (they call that “very [...]

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There were two things that made many conservatives extremely unhappy during last weekend’s anti-Bush protest in Washington. The first was the appearance of Jane Fonda – Hanoi Jane – and her declaration that after 30 years of silence, she simply had to come out of “retirement” to help end the debacle in Iraq. The second [...]

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Deadly weather in the form of supercell thunderstorms and at least one tornado struck Central Florida early Friday, killing at least 14 people in Lady Lake and Paisley, a municipality close to the Ocala National Forest. As daylight came, there were still a number of people missing in the affected areas. In Lady Lake mobile [...]

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 Attention – Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect  Sri Lanka’s cabinet expanded to 54 ministers yesterday, compounding logistical problems for parliamentary staff struggling to find them a big enough meeting room, officials said.A layman from Sri Lanka’s Buddhist monks’ party, the National Heritage Party, was sworn in as environment minister by [...]

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I think one of the sadder things about the recent death of columnist Molly Ivins was that the cancer that killed her this week seems to have killed every scrap of humor in her writing long ago… it’s as if chemo killed the funny bone, too and replaced it with an advanced case of Bush [...]

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Al Gore may have gotten screwed out of the presidency in 2000, but by God, he’s going to get the recognition of billions of people one way or the other. So his game plan for the last several years has been to preach about the hazards of global warming like there’s no tomorrow, thus setting [...]

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 Attention – Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect  Sri Lanka today said it secured 4.5 billion US dollars in aid pledges, but international donors have warned that the cash flow will depend on the progress in the faltering peace process. Investment Promotions Minister Sarath Amunugama said donors pledged 4.5 billion US [...]

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Attention – Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect                            Education preserving Elitism   Delhi’s (and India’s) public schools are actually private schools. Getting access there is no less a achievement than tackling the IIT’s  JEE. Perhaps no where is this more true than in the Nation’s capital , where even [...]

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  By David Schussler   There is no doubt that all of the industrial practices, commuting practices, and recreational practices of humankind worldwide is causing pollution of some kind or depleting natural resources. The degradation of the air we breathe, especially in industrial, urban areas is horrible. The costs, expenses, and collateral pollution problems involved [...]

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News Item: Experts address global warming in NJ Long Beach Island and Cape May could be under water. The Highlands may become a seashore community. Atlantic City gamblers would be swimming to the poker tables. That’s the lead paragraph in yesterday’s Courier Post article on global warming, and it’s based on scenarios laid out by [...]

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WFAA TV in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas market has been touting a story that they obviously think is some sort of tragedy. So bad, in fact, that the first words of their story are, “‘Inhumanity’ and ‘atrocity’ are just two words being used to describe news…” One would think that the world was ending, wouldn’t [...]

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ISBN: 1-59228-901-0 The Lyons Press 304 pages, Hard Cover Tom Smith’s latest book transports the reader back to the late 1800’s. The action takes place in New Orleans. This book is a factual account of 3 separate and yet related violent events. New Orleans in the 1890’s was very different from the Big Easy that [...]

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Lest we forget, some 20% of Americans supposedly have to deal with depression at some point in their lives and studies of the children caught in the chaos of the Middle East — its threats of sudden violence — have been assessed as more than 50% suffering from post traumatic stress! As a teacher of [...]

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German police are puzzled by the mysterious disappearance of three top soccer coaches, all having vanished within a short 24 hour period. Unconfirmed reports indicate that the baffled cops are even considering calling in Jack Bauer to help investigate the matter. Bauer, obviously of German descent, won’t be able to invest all too much time into clearing [...]

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What a great story! It starts with our good friends the RIAA (Recording Industry of America Association) going after a suspected music pirate Patti Santangelo. Of the thousands of piracy suits filed by the RIAA very few people have stood up to their heavy handed, almost bordering on thugery tactics. Patti did stand up, and [...]

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 By Honey Gillard The UN climate panel has issued its strongest warning yet that human activities, such as the act of burning fossil fuels are heating our globe, gradually but definitely apparantly. Extra pressure is now being put on governments to get t heir act together and to do more to fight the ever-increasing prblem [...]

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By Josh Kron Kigali, Rwanda: Despite new reassurances from UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon to Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni that the security situation in the north of the country will be tackled, “as soon as possible,” the peace process appears stalled. As members of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) slowly move away from agreed-upon assembly points in [...]

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There are big hopes for next week’s 6-party talks with North Korea. Christopher Hill, key negotiator for the US, has said that the US is hoping for progress. It’s likely that this progress will happen, and that the Koreans will get what they’ve been seeking, which is aid. It is also very likely that the [...]

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