Name the five countries whose names are a single syllable.
Found this on BoingBoing and forwarding it on. Photos from Civil Rights activities in Alabama in the 50s/60s, never before published.
West End High School students protest the enrollment of Patricia Marcus and Josephine Powell, who were inside. Marcus and Powell were attending their first classes. West End High students boycotted classes as part of their protest.http://www.al.com/unseen/It's fun (ok, I find if fun) to grab one of the names and google it and see what turns up.
West End High School students protest the enrollment of Patricia Marcus and Josephine Powell, who were inside. Marcus and Powell were attending their first classes. West End High students boycotted classes as part of their protest.http://www.al.com/unseen/It's fun (ok, I find if fun) to grab one of the names and google it and see what turns up.
The Moral Hazard Myth
I had hoped that the major corporations would unite with employee groups to try and solve this one. Instead everyone is looking to just pass the buck on to someone else.
One of the great mysteries of political life in the United States is why Americans are so devoted to their health-care system. Six times in the past century--during the First World War, during the Depression, during the Truman and Johnson Administrations, in the Senate in the nineteen-seventies, and during the Clinton years--efforts have been made to introduce some kind of universal health insurance, and each time the efforts have been rejected. Instead, the United States has opted for a makeshift system of increasing complexity and dysfunction. Americans spend $5,267 per capita on health care every year, almost two and half times the industrialized world's median of $2,193; the extra spending comes to hundreds of billions of dollars a year.
I had hoped that the major corporations would unite with employee groups to try and solve this one. Instead everyone is looking to just pass the buck on to someone else.
Whoo hooo; there's a blogger widget. Now I'm gonna be posting all the time!
I'm addicted to Bubblet. I reset my Bubblet series 7,120 games ago and my average is 280.16 with a high score of 1,132.
The Human Clock - A Clock Photo for Every Minute of the Day..Have I not mentioned this before? Or at least for a while?Follow the link, then click "view the clock".
Librarian takes heat over search.
That whole democracy thing is such a pain in the neck.Donald Rumsfeld compares Chavez to Hitler
Just this morning I was thinking the same thing about President Bush - elected legally (at least the 2nd time, mostly) and then he starts trampling on civil rights - but I figured it was too over the top, even for me.
In the face of a storm of protest, Newton officials defended their decision to demand that the FBI obtain a warrant before searching the public library's computers to track down who had e-mailed a threat to Brandeis University.The head librarian's defiance prompted a rare public rebuke from the US attorney in Boston and a tongue-lashing from a conservative radio talk host who called her a ''loony liberal.
...''Getting a warrant is very time-consuming," said (US Attorney Michael J. ) Sullivan, who ordered the FBI search. ''You have to collect facts, prepare an affidavit, present it to a judge . . .That's valuable time that's potentially lost in an investigation."
That whole democracy thing is such a pain in the neck.Donald Rumsfeld compares Chavez to Hitler
"I mean, we've got Chavez in Venezuela with a lot of oil money. He's a person who was elected legally -- just as Adolf Hitler was elected legally -- and then consolidated power and now is, of course, working closely with Fidel Castro and Mr. Morales and others."
Just this morning I was thinking the same thing about President Bush - elected legally (at least the 2nd time, mostly) and then he starts trampling on civil rights - but I figured it was too over the top, even for me.
For all my geeky friends - Ajaxian, an AJAX web log... (let's not be petty about yet another acronym - the combination is cool).
In an effort to create some visual interest for the Christmas letter, I've added one of my favorite pictures as the header graphic. I was at a conference in Vancouver a few years ago and the Queen of England happened to be staying in the same hotel at the very same time. I took this picture as a group waited for HRH to make an appearance. See the full picture here.
Lilah's current IM message is a Family Guy quote. Peter: Listen Lois, I know you're a feminist and I think that's adorable, but this is grown-up time and I'm the man.This, from our Feminism/History major.... (That's Feminism and History.)