The current National Hurricane Center GIS files 5 day prediction [green] show Gustav taking a dramatic turn. It’s predicted extent is outlined in yellow. Looks like it might be headed to parched North Georgia to me! And Hannah might cooperate too!
It’s funny how hobbies start. For most of my career, I took the month of August off from work. Meaning that all my vacations were during Hurricane season - often involving a week at a friend’s place on the Gulf Coast. So I got into "tracking" Hurricanes. Back then, it was dots on a map. [...]
As a child 30 year old, I went to the 1972 Munich Olympics. At the time, I was a reluctant draftee in the Air Force, living in England where I was stationed in the early days of my marriage to a sports nut. So off we went to Munich with a fist full of tickets [...]
The unexpected and untimely death of Tim Russert has evoked a mammoth media response and commentary from just about everybody. I don’t watch the Sunday Talking Head shows anymore, so my exposure to Tim was on the nightly news or on election coverage. In Bush’s first term and a half, I was down on the [...]
Well, I came into Kucinich’s Impeachment articles about halfway through on CSPAN. I have no idea where it will go, but he did one fine job of presenting them. With each point, he seemed to get a new wind and enthusiasm, and he had certainly done his homework. It was like hearing the history of [...]
Researchers Fail to Reveal Full Drug Pay
A world-renowned Harvard child psychiatrist whose work has helped fuel an explosion in the use of powerful antipsychotic medicines in children earned at least $1.6 million in consulting fees from drug makers from 2000 to 2007 but for years did not report much of this income to [...]
"To err is human, to forgive, divine" Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism. 1711
What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception by Scott McClellan has certainly captured our attention these last few days. Even though most of us haven’t read the book, we [...]
There’s nothing much good to say about Ted Kennedy’s diagnosis of Malignant Glioma. But there’s plenty good to say about Ted Kennedy. I recall him speaking at a March on the one year anniversary of MLK’s assasination. It was an unruly gathering, interrupted by outbreaks of violence from black power supporters, tear gas drifting through [...]
I knew that India was once floating in the ocean and slowly slid into Asia creating the Himilayas, but I had no idea that there was still this much seismic activity in inland Asia [bottom figure].
Earthquakes in China, Cyclones in Burma, Volcanos in Chile, Tornados in Georgia. The gods must be angry…