Mosquito population swells in Washtenaw County after rainy spring and heat wave (Julianna Keeping, annarbor.com/)
Rain and heat are causing me to have to mow the grass twice a week now or the backyard starts to look like the Brazilian rainforest.
“I have finally come to feel that this country, whether or not I continue to live in it, is no longer any place for me.” (Bill Kauffman, The American Conservative)
Quoting Edmund Wilson here, but I know that feeling too, brother.
Why are EULAs so hard to read? (Rafe Needleman, Cnet)
A tech lawyer explains.
A look at the sports doping scene from inside the locker room (Stuart Stevens, Outside)
A 47 year old amateur bike racer sniffs around LA's gym rat milieu to see what sort of "performance enhancers" people are using and why.
Mexican drug cartels build Death Race style homemade narco tanks (Slashdot)
Insanely crazy shit going on down there.
Dems plot to make Wisconsin "ungovernable" says blogger (David Blaska, Blaska's Blog)
Politics is war by other means up in Cheesehead Land.
Showing posts with label Bill Kauffman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bill Kauffman. Show all posts
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
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Sadly, says writer Bill Kauffman, no it does not.
"Since 1941, war has warped American life. Only the doddering and the dotards among us have lived in an America that is not armed, aggressive, and perpetually at war. If you would seek those who know what an America at peace is like, visit the nursing home. If you would hear the sounds of America at war, walk the corridors of a veterans’ hospital. Listen to the shrieks and sobs—the keening for the lost America of Ida and Edgar Eisenhower."
Written on the 50th anniversary of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's 1961 farewell address warning Americans about the emergent military-industrial complex.
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