NY Times Op-ed:
An ill wind from factory farms. Even a medium-sized pig farm will make the gorge rise in your throat, and shorten your breath. If you’ve never ‘enjoyed’ the experience, drive downwind of one sometime.
NY Times:
Well, they’ve got a travel piece on our “lightning field.” My advice: wait for monsoon season. Late July/early to mid-August. Virtually guaranteed lightshow at that time of year.
Wonders never cease.
I happened to click by “The McLaughlin Group” on television tonight. The usual shoutfest caught my attention ... then *really* caught my attention. They were ripping Bush a fresh orifice over Iraq, and deficit spending. The tide is turning, ladies and germs. The conservative voices were getting shouted down, video rolls were used to back up the Bush links from 9/11 to Iraq. It was cathartic to watch. The Iraqis, getting subsidised health care? From US? And we don’t get any?
Later, the group perpetuated some of the myths about Clark. Well, you can’t expect a sea-change overnight, I guess ...
Miami Herald:
Buddhist monk completes seven year run. Bloody hell, what a run! Read for the actual physical/spiritual requirements. No Nikes either, and you may lay to that.
Good grief,
I sound like a “neocon!”
Pirate-talk day, eh?
To be sure, I ain’t sich an infernal lubber, by thunder. Shiver me timbers! For some four years, I’ve sailed these weblog seas, and seen good and bad, better and worse, fair weather and foul, provisions runnin’ out, knives going, and what not. Well, now I tell ye I never seen good come o’ goodness yet. Him as strikes first is my fancy; dead men don’t bite; them’s my views ... and you can lay to that.
[Apologies to Robert Louis Stevenson; free rap from memory.]
DP Review:
New info for those of us watching the Olympus E-1 digital camera progress.
Reuters:
“Bright, sunny jobless spring seen on the NY catwalks.” My italics.
Egypt Today:
Stallone in Cairo. Yag. Learn of different cultures via Stallone vehicles? Russia? Afghanistan? Maybe that’s why we chose fisticuffs over diplomacy. But I’ll reserve my judgement, for the moment.
Wood S Lot has,
I believe, capped his “rock balancing” meme of the past few days with photos of Stonehenge. Brilliant. I’ve been trying my hand at rock balancing myself, since the meme started late last week. ‘Old Woody’ and GMT+9 are the top of my ‘desert-island blog list’, btw. Can’t live without ‘em.
NY Times Editorials:
Two good ‘uns. The terrorism link that wasn’t. A deceptive abortion ban. That last puts judicial appointments front and center, doesn’t it?
NY Times Arts:
Photography Review, The gaze turns outward and sees estrangement.
NY Times Travel:
Life on the Appalachian Trail, watching the pilgrims go by.
NY Times:
Late-arriving candidate got push from Clintons. More on Wesley Clark. Seems he got booted by his own military culture, the Pentagon, through some under-the-table dealings. Dirty pool, if you ask me.
NY Times Science:
Low-Calorie diet studies take scientists aback. “... for most species, aging is so remarkably pliable that interventions do not have to be lifelong.”
NY Times:
Lots of zoom, with batteries. *Laptop* batteries!?!
Santa Fe New Mexican:
Peltier seeks a parole hearing.
Santa Fe New Mexican:
Ralph Nader whacks Governor Richardson for speeding. A bit faster than the vehicle I observed a few weeks ago with State Senator tags. Dangerous. Oftentimes, it’s not the speeder, but the overreactions of innocents that start a domino effect ...
Santa Fe New Mexican:
Spraying may not help, but bark beetles are on the rise over the last week. I choose to fight.
IHT:
Mexican in America, and proud of it. “I am, like my father, Mexican, and on the day of independence, I say this with particular pride.” Mexican-Americans take one hell of a beating, socio/economically. A great article.
Guardian.UK:
Congress bridles at spending package. “The newly revealed small print of Mr Bush’s $87bn (£54bn) funding request left many Democrats and some Republicans outraged that the administration aimed to spend more per head on Iraqi public services than it spends on each American.” Once again, my italics.
Washington Times:
Never thought I’d list WT under “environmental.” African lions close to extinction. Only 23,000 left. The last 20 years have been devastating for the species, and the future’s certainly no treat.
Adaptive Path:
Veen, The business value of web standards. My italics. Perhaps nothing is earth-shatteringly new here ... but this is a nice, authoritative source to back up your XHTML/CSS thrust to clients and employers. The “save money” concept always rings bells.
BBC:
UK bans spam. “Under the new law, companies will have to get permission from an individual before they can send them an e-mail or text message. But the regulations do not cover business e-mail addresses, despite some calls for a blanket ban on spam.”
Yahoo/AP:
No evidence that Saddam was making, or stockpiling, smallpox. “From the onset the evidence was strictly circumstantial ... [snip] ... There was a lot of smoke but not much fire there.”
