Tag: politics
All the articles with the tag "politics".
Is that guy on drugs?
I am going to get my eyes measured today for wavefront LASIK. I have wanted to do this for a while, but waited until the 3d technology was affordable ($2400). Surprisingly, the costs in Calgary were a…
Travel shows and Khan
This will be a busy weekend. Little Italy festival, Ray at Night, and One Nation at the Whistle Stop. Too bad I have so much work to do :( There are few travel shows out there, and even fewer that I l…
Disposables
My links of the day: Stealing a nation - A new documentary by John Pilger, to be screened next Wednesday, reveals how in the 1960s Britain secretly and brutally expelled the inhabitants of the Chagos …
Evolution, DNA, and God
Your links of the day: Keats' project asks some serious scientific questions -- and no small number of religious ones: If evolutionary theory is accurate, then God's genetic makeup should most resembl…
Gaggart
My new testament might be a bit rusty, but I think Jimmy Swaggart might be even rustier than I : " I'm trying to find the correct name for it ... this utter absolute, asinine, idiotic stupidity of men…
Stem Cells
Interesting: Proposition 71 to devote $3 billion to human embryonic stem cell experiments in California . It is good to see that people are trying to get around the Bush administration's attempt to ki…
Voz Alta
Miami Model: Free Trade Police State at Voz Alta was worthwhile. The place was packed out. The movie was thought provoking, and asked some good questions about the changing environment of protests (an…
Don't forget to dress up
Anna and I are going to be married on Oct 30. My parents were married on Friday the 13th, so we were tempted to make it Halloween as a laugh. But Saturday will be easier to manage. The plan so far is:…
Shocked
Congressional Budget Office says tax burden fell for those making $1M, increased for lower levels. Ok, I'm not really shocked.
Spam and war
Great, I am getting Iraqi reconstruction spam. Hurray for war profiteering. 'War profiteering', isn't that redundant? Oh how nice! Pentagon: Bush Military Records Destroyed Bush has declined invitatio…