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China dissident commits suicide after forcible deportation - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Topic: Current Events 8:15 am EDT, Jun 16, 2008

The suicide of a man who was forcibly returned to China by Australian immigration authorities has prompted calls by refugee advocates for better treatment of people seeking protection visas.

China dissident commits suicide after forcible deportation - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)


Good-Bye, Cheap Oil. So Long, Suburbia?
Topic: Current Events 8:50 am EDT, Apr 30, 2008

The suburban landscape has been marred by foreclosures and half-built communities abandoned in the subprime aftermath. But James Howard Kunstler, author of a dozen books, including The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape, thinks there's a bigger threat to those far-flung neighborhoods: the scarcity of oil. As Kunstler sees it, oil wells are running dry and the era of cheap fuel is over. Given the supply constraints, he says the U.S. will have to rethink suburban sprawl, bringing an end to strip malls, big-box stores, and other trappings of the automotive era. Kunstler, 59, predicts a return to towns and cities centered around a retail hub—not unlike his hometown of Saratoga Springs, N.Y. But the shift to this new paradigm, he says, will be painful. (Kunstler could be off the mark; he predicted technological Armageddon after Y2K.) BusinessWeek writer Mara Der Hovanesian spoke with Kunstler about suburbia, which he calls "the greatest misallocation of resources the world has ever known."

No one rerecommended this similar perspective on the same issue.

Good-Bye, Cheap Oil. So Long, Suburbia?


The Next Administration's Economy - Wall Street Column - Jesse Eisinger - Portfolio.com
Topic: Current Events 12:10 am EDT, Apr 15, 2008

The presidential campaign has gone on for so long that it feels like one of those bad dreams in which you run in slow motion but never get anywhere.

It's increasingly looking like the economic revival of the past few years—once celebrated on the right as the "Bush boom"—was a mirage, conjured up by excessive borrowing and irresponsible lending.

There will be blood.

The Next Administration's Economy - Wall Street Column - Jesse Eisinger - Portfolio.com


William F. Buckley Jr. dies at 82 - Yahoo! News
Topic: Current Events 1:48 pm EST, Feb 27, 2008

William F. Buckley Jr., the erudite Ivy Leaguer and conservative herald who showered huge and scornful words on liberalism as he observed, abetted and cheered on the right's post-World War II rise from the fringes to the White House, died Wednesday. He was 82.

William F. Buckley Jr. dies at 82 - Yahoo! News


Who needs security when you have a robot? | ajc.com
Topic: Current Events 10:12 am EST, Feb 22, 2008

Late at night several times a week, Terrill powers up the 4-foot-tall, 300 pound device and reaches for a remote control packed with two joysticks and various knobs and switches. Standing on a nearby corner, he maneuvers the machine down the block, often to a daycare center where it accosts what Terrill says are drug dealers, vagrants and others who shouldn't be there.

He flashes the robot's spotlight and grabs a walkie-talkie, which he uses to boom his disembodied voice over the robot's sound system.

"I tell them they are trespassing, it's private property, and they have to leave," he said. "They throw bottles and cans at it. That's when I shoot the water cannon. They just scatter like roaches."

OMG, I can't believe he actually built it, and I can't believe it actually works.

Who needs security when you have a robot? | ajc.com


Taxi to the Dark Side
Topic: Current Events 4:13 am EST, Feb 15, 2008

Put people in a crazy situation and people do crazy things

You have no right to a lawyer
you have no right to witnesses
You don't really know what the charges are
And you certainly don't know what the secret evidence is against you

Its not about left or right, its about right and wrong

This is playing in Atlanta at The Landmark

Taxi to the Dark Side


Obama Protection
Topic: Current Events 3:43 pm EST, Jan 19, 2008

Secret Service presence has increased for Sen. Barack Obama since his dramatic win in Iowa, amid fears over the safety of the man seeking to become America's first black president.

Obama Protection


Making Light: How to wrap a package
Topic: Current Events 3:34 pm EST, Dec 24, 2007

This is for everyone who’s wondered why their packages don’t come out looking as nice as their sister-in-law’s.

I suck at wrapping Christmas presents. I really need to find this next year.

Making Light: How to wrap a package


Friedman Writes Back
Topic: Current Events 10:35 am EST, Dec 19, 2007

George Freidman has a blog.

Friedman Writes Back


Best AFP photos 2007_English_Xinhua
Topic: Current Events 3:39 pm EST, Dec 17, 2007

A veterinary's arm dripping in a crocodile's mouth in southern Taiwan, China, April 11, 2007. The veterinary's arm was bitten off while he was treating the injured crocodile.

Many of the others are almost as disturbing...

Best AFP photos 2007_English_Xinhua


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