Archive for the ‘current events’ Category
Charlton Heston died yesterday at 84. I may not have enjoyed many of his movies too much, but I always enjoyed seeing him work.
To read something like this gives me joy and hope for our political process. A self-described “brain-dead liberal” confesses his change in views, embracing a less polemical view of the world (and I’d say much more realistic). It is refreshing, honest, and thought-provoking. Even though I’m sure the author and I would disagree on many [...]
Seattle is a pretty cool town. I love living here, but stupid crap like this makes me a bit itchier to get out of the city limits. Here’s the gist: All single-family homes in Seattle must sign up for table-scrap recycling in 2009, the City Council decided Monday. While residents will have to pay for [...]
Saddam has been executed. May God have mercy on his soul.
And you are too. My first thought when seeing this was that Time magazine has finally, really, truly taken the wussy and lazy route. How boring is it to say that 300 million people are the persons of the year? Didn’t we learn anything from The Incredibles? If everybody is special then nobody is special. [...]
I wasn’t really aware of how bad the storm hit us. Probably because I never lost power and was fairly sheltered from the winds I think. A photo gallery of some of the destruction can be seen here (sorry if it resizes your browser window). Last night my team at work had our holiday dinner [...]
Bad weather in Seattle last night, so a bunch of poor saps are without power including my work, so I got the day off. They won’t even let us in the buildings to get laptops so we can work from home. I guess I’m fine with that. It’s nice to have a day off, but [...]
Anybody else find it disturbing when our enemy, a crazed radical Islamist intent on going nuclear, who talks often of the destruction of Israel and is in complete defiance of the UN, makes statements such as these: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday called U.S. President George W. Bush’s defeat in congressional elections [...]
There was an election yesterday. That’s kinda cool I guess. It’s nice to know other people out there still care enough to vote. Me, I stopped caring, at least for now. Democrats won big in the House and have gained a very slight majority in the Senate. I don’t read too much politics these days, [...]
The Volokh Conspiracy has an excellent post detailing why Taiwan should be granted a seat in the UN. In a nutshell: The UN Charter, article 4, states that “Membership in the United Nations is open to all other [non-founding] peace-loving states which accept the obligations contained in the present Charter and, in the judgment of [...]
