Subterranean Qana Blues
Tragedy visited Qana again Sunday, a once-picturesque village of figs, grapevines and olive trees along rolling, rocky hills where Lebanese believe Jesus Christ turned water into wine for a wedding. It was here on...
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Accelerating Shrinkage
Mountain glaciers … are in retreat around the Earth, taking with them vast stores of water that grow crops, generate electricity and sustain cities and rural areas … The steady supply of water [farmers]...
The Incredibly Strange Titles That Started Growing and Became Mixed-Up Metaphors
Someone suggested the following as a possible sequel for that Snakes movie: A Sack Of Weasels On An Evil Clown Riding A Unicycle On Top Of A Combine Harvester Through A Nunnery It’s no...
Thinking About Emo
I was thinking about the current media fad for “Emo” when I read this (subsequently censored and deleted): people are tired of pretentious assholes telling them what to think and want to go back...
Iran, Uninterrupted
Four years and two years ago I noted that Iran seemed to have successfully duped the US into removing both of its main regional adversaries, the Taliban and Saddam Hussein, and in the process...
Bt-Oblivious Bad Bug Blow Back
A detailed survey of 481 cotton growers in China found that, although they did use fewer pesticides in the first few years of adopting GM plants, after seven years they had to use just...
Unhassled Hoff
David Hasselhoff’s superstar status as a singer in Europe hasn’t carried over to America but he says “if it happens, it happens.” “I’m a big punching bag … I just kind of go with...
Viral Snakes on a Blog
There is this movie coming out about snakes on a plane with Samuel Jackson. Nothing remarkable about that really, more summer escapism. What’s more remarkable is the concerted, relentless, and nauseatingly omnipresent viral marketing...
When Doves Nomunicate
Nomunication, which means to discuss something over a couple of drinks, sounded hip in the early ’90s when the Japanese economic juggernaut appeared poised to take over the world, but now the word affects...
Timing Is Everything
The first civil charges will be forthcoming “very soon” in the stock options timing scandal involving dozens of U.S. companies … The SEC, FBI and federal prosecutors are investigating nearly 60 companies to determine...