Wednesday, October 27, 2004

The Edible Landscape project. Regine Debatty: By 2050, the size of the city slums that house over a billion people today will have more than doubled. An international 3-year project, called... [WorldChanging: Another World Is Here] 9:34:37 PM  comment []  Trackback []     Cool, huh!... A Real Education, by Way of Sleight of Hand. Larry Hass, who normally teaches courses in philosophy at Muhlenberg College, in Allentown, Pa., has started teaching classes on magic. By By MAREK FUCHS. [NYT > Education] 9:21:38 PM  comment []  Trackback []     There are still doctors worth consulting... Nurse, Where Do We Keep the Chicken Wire and Lamp Cord?. Desperate for a solution, a doctor tries the hardware store when hospital equipment won't do. By By LARRY ZAROFF, M.D.. [NYT > Health] 9:19:15 PM  comment []  Trackback []     Hmmm...maybe they don't kill each other... Scientists find new species of 3ft humans. The remains of a new species of human have been discovered on a remote Indonesian island - a spectacular find that could rewrite the story of human evolution. [Telegraph News | Breaking News] 9:13:35 PM  comment []  Trackback []     Get this incompetent fool out of the Whitehouse: "I hope I am not responsible for Armageddon". While the Bush administration scrambles to do damage control over the nearly 380 tons of missing high-tech explosives in Iraq, an Op-Ed today in the Boston Globe from arms control and non-proliferation expert Peter W. Galbraith, a former U.S. ambassador to Croatia, reveals more evidence of a long pattern of negligence by Team Bush in the war. There's little doubt now among military and security experts that the Rumsfeld doctrine of minimal-boots-on-the-ground resulted in poor capability for U.S. forces to control violence and looting after the fall of Baghdad -- but we're not just talking about a disregard for Iraqi museums here. The administration's failure to secure large amounts of potentially deadly materiel of all sorts, as described by Galbraith, is utterly frightening. [Salon.com] 9:09:17 PM  comment []  Trackback []     Okay, and when he's (Raymond) not being scintillatingly lucid, he worries us... John Kerry -- Communist agent of influence. Read this: John Kerry and the VVAW: Hanoi's American Puppets?. They don't mention that while John Kerry was operating as an agent of influence for the Vietnamese Communists, he was still an officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve. There is a word for what a serving military officer does when he acts as an agent for ... [Armed and Dangerous] 9:02:08 PM  comment []  Trackback []

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