Bush was naturalizing citizens in Monticello, today. AP reports:
Anti-war protesters shouted out calls for Bush’s impeachment on nine occasions during Bush’s brief remarks, and the president responded by saying he agrees that “we believe in free speech in the United States of America” [...]
The last six Fourth of July holidays have taken place amid [...]
SIGH — another report from a respected environmental institution lambasting Canada for its atrocious and morally/legally defiant climate performance. I tire of reading them, but find this one an especially good summary of our collective shame.
Leading up to next weeks’ G8 summit in Japan, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has released a report examining the [...]
Drilling through my RSS feeds today I fell back in love with the Strange Maps blog. A wonderful collection of cartographical curiosities; I had forgotten how much I enjoyed reading it.
This particular selection details federal ownership of land across the United States. Private ownership-loving America holds about 30% of it’s total landmass in federal hands. [...]
Happy National Corvette Day!
From your USA Automotive Industry!
P.S. We are in shambles.
Why? Inability to see predict change? Inability to adjust to current change? Reliance on subservient and dedicated servants in Legislatures across the West?
With rumours of Chrysler’s imminent bankruptcy, GM worth what it was worth in 1955, crumbling domestic infrastructure, peak, and systemic [...]
San Diego Country isn’t happy with the McCain family. Turns out, one of the many trusts that administers one of their seven homes hasn’t paid taxes in four years. McCain’s trust scrambled to pay nearly all of the outstanding debt to the county. $1,742 of a total $6,744.42 remains.
If that seems like an [...]
George Carlin and Keith Olbermann discuss USAmerican democracy as it stood in late 2007.
“This country has been sliding downhill for a long time and everybody’s got a cellphone that makes pancakes so they don’t want to rock the boat. They don’t want to make trouble. The people have been bought off by gizmos and [...]
More embarrassments for the copyright corporatists. Cory Doctorow points us to a widely-blogged new study from the University of Washington suggesting flawed and irresponsible use of DMCA “takedown notices” by trade group copyright cartels.
In brief, the new threat to intellectual property is inanimate objects — as three laser printers have achieved sentience and been [...]
Last summer, my friend/insurance liability Justin nearly got into a physical fight with a Palestinian man in downtown Calgary over his wearing of a Keffiyeh-like scarf. The Keffiyeh-like scarf has become an ubiquitous accoutrement on and off the scenester dance floors. It is now an impulse item at the check-out tills in self-conscious anti-culture retailers [...]
Very neat conversation happening over at reddit. I couldn’t agree more that there is an increasing information gap (not necessarily a “knowledge” gap, of course) emerging between the connected and the not. I’m sure several readers will immediately relate to the sentiment of the graphic.
smackywentz commented:
We were at a restaurant last night, and by ‘we’ [...]
A striking graph from the CEOs for Cities report, “Driven to the brink” on gasoline prices and land use planning. (press release and full document).
(via Steve Davis at Smart Growth around America).
