Archive for Disaster
America Betrayed
Hurricane Katrina was a bit player in the disaster that befell New Orleans; a Category 1 hurricane (there, although stronger elsewhere), it was able to swamp the city only because of an egregious, decades-long failure on the part of the Army Corps of Engineers to ensure that the levee system protecting New Orleans was sound.
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Goobers
Mr. Peanut is off the A-list of celebrity mascots, and not just because his get-up –high hat, monocle and cane — calls to mind the bloated plutocrats of the Gilded Age and of our recent, collective amnesia that allowed Gilded Age II to succeed at the box office. In the wake of the recall of most things [...]
First Post
Here’s the problem with starting a blog: Since most of us who consider doing so are blog readers ourselves, we’re acutely aware that the challenge is daunting. There are more blogs out there than you can shake a cyber-stick at, and reading too many in any sufficiently short period of time leaves the indelible impression [...]