Category: Current Affairs
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Bombing in Karachi : Washington Post. A group of terrorists was able to get together and attack a major police facility with automatic weapons and a huge truck bomb. Obviously, these are not isolated disgruntled individuals taking revenge for the latest drone attack. They are well organized, well trained and well supplied with arms, ammunition, technical…
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Everyone knows that Afghanistan, is, in cricketing parlance, at best, a sticky wicket, if not a downright pigsty. Now, we have the Leaks pouring onto an already damp pitch, 90,000+ documents regarding the day-to-day conduct of the war in Afghanistan, of which 75,000 are now available for your perusal. Or if you don't have the…
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How many times have you opened up the newspaper or a magazine to see large colorful spreads advertising the latest prescription drug, followed by precisely formatted fonts cooing at you to 'Talk to your doctor to see if this is right for you', and pages of print so microscopic that you need an jeweller's loupe…
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The US State Department, on the Iranian woman who’s been sentenced to death for adultery: “Stoning as a means of execution is tantamount to torture. It’s barbaric and an abhorrent act.” If I understand correctly, in the State Department’s view, stoning to death > torture ( = waterboarding?) > execution, on the awfulness scale. There…
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Some relief from the ‘Hollow and vapid charade‘ that Kagan once considered the proceeds of a Supreme Court justice confirmation hearing, I presume.
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(Trailer of Gasland) There's a large industrial park close to my home, filled with large buildings and tasteful landscaping. All were empty last year; all are filled this year. They have been leased by companies seeking to drill for natural gas in the remnants of countryside and rolling hills, now crowded out by McMansion subdevelopments…
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If this investigating professor is to be believed, it started several weeks before the Deepwater Horizon rig, positioned several miles offshore, drilling in 5000 ft deep ocean, was due to be capped and moved to another location for drilling. Based on his interviews with people who were involved in the rig's operation "There was an…
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Through the cloud of volcanic ash spewed by the Icelandic volcano Eyjafyallajokull, that is. As thousands of flights were canceled over the weekend, desperate travelers sought any possible way out of airport lounge purgatory, driving across countries and paying unprecedented prices for one-way taxi or bus rides. The flights resume, after a few test flights…
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Tea Party politics has kicked into high gear. The already overheated war of words is getting hotter. Republican leaders are vying with each other to gain the fawning love of Tea Partiers. The GOP has turned into the Grand Opposition Party where just saying "no" to Obama-Pelosi-Reid, without offering alternate solutions to policies and programs constitutes political courage. We have seen and heard…
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Figurative: Wi-Fi problems "Users who rushed to snap up Apple's iPad are complaining within days of the slate computer's highly anticipated release that they're having trouble connecting it to the Internet. On Apple's technical support Web site, there were 11 pages of comments Tuesday morning on a post saying Wi-Fi connections were weak or kept…
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The health care debate of yesterday condensed to 10 minutes (from Huffington Post)
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Now the outcry over the Toyota car recalls has gotten to the point where the venerable Edmunds.com is offering a one-million dollar prize to anyone who can "re-create unintended acceleration in a car and then solve that problem and prove the whole thing" to Toyota. What a comedown for a company that has been known…
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