Category: General News
NPR – Congresswoman, 6 Others, Killed By Gunman
Political disagreements should never be resolved through violence.
NYTimes.com – Agency Agreed That Spill Risk to Wildlife Was ‘Low’
The Fish and Wildlife Service, agreed with the Minerals Management Service that a moderate spill would not pose a significant risk to species in the Gulf of Mexico.
After Americans Visit, Uganda Weighs Death for Gays – NYTimes.com
Post three Christian Americans coming and speaking at a conference on homosexuality, Uganda politicians starting weighing a bill to kill homosexuals.
Just In Case You Thought Print Media Was Better Than Online Journalism
Nope they aren’t. The Times of London at the very least miss-attributed a statistic.
Drilling Bill Passes, Drilling Occurs Years From Today
Some Congressional Republicans have skipped heading home during the August break to instead park out at Congress and try to pressure the Democrats to vote and debate on energy bills. Okay, first off a couple of Twitter messages that might provide some background into this issue. John Culberson, a House Republican from Texas, who uses […]
Freedom of Speech Means Freedom to Say Anything
Freedom of speech, means the freedom to say anything irregardless of it being stupid or mean. Now granted you do have to have reasonable limits of freedom of speech in order for society to operate, the standard screaming fire in a crowded building clause. But freedom of speech means just that, you can’t operate in […]
A Time To Pray
I never quite understood the point of there being offered a time for students to pray during school hours. For one, teachers and administrators always seem to be all about pushing as much into the kids as is possible, so to waste anywhere from 5 – 10 minutes every days just seems like a lot […]
What If We Let Iraq’s Decide To Stay The Course Or Not?
I read some two interesting article that got me thinking about a possible solution to Iraq. What if we let the Iraq’s decide if the US should stay the course in Iraq or pull out? I know radical idea letting the people we are directly affecting decide their fate. Two things got my radar buzzing […]
The Rise of the Generalist
Recently Steve Rubel posted about What’s the Future Like for a “Renaissance Man” in a Connected World?. In this post he discuses how even though we would think that with the internet an individual could have broad knowledge about the world, instead people specialize in their particular area of expertise. He then says that he […]
Daily Links April 9th, 2008
Lots of news from Yahoo in it’s efforts to fight off the takeover offer from Microsoft. Yahoo announced they will go through a two week trial period outsourcing their search ads to Google News Corp is in talks to join with Microsoft in it’s takeover offer for Yahoo AOL and Yahoo are looking at joining […]