WDSU (New Orleans) has a blog with good up-to-the-minute coverage. Wikipedia has good coverage round-up and background, although it is not as up-to-the-minute (and beware the troll attacks). Obviously, my decision to have a Katrina slideshow is affecting loading time of the sidebar, but I will maintain it throughout much of the day. UPDATE 11:17 a.m. EDT: Katrina downgraded to … Read More
Katrina Is Really Really Bad – Part II
From the NOAA: MOST OF THE AREA WILL BE UNINHABITABLE FOR WEEKS…PERHAPS LONGER. AT LEAST ONE HALF OF WELL CONSTRUCTED HOMES WILL HAVE ROOF AND WALL FAILURE. ALL GABLED ROOFS WILL FAIL…LEAVING THOSE HOMES SEVERELY DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. THE MAJORITY OF INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS WILL BECOME NON FUNCTIONAL. PARTIAL TO COMPLETE WALL AND ROOF FAILURE IS EXPECTED. ALL WOOD FRAMED LOW … Read More
Katrina Is Really Really Bad
Look. We know that all hurricanes are bad. And we know that category 5 hurricanes are really bad. But something like this hitting New Orleans is perhaps the worst. New Orleans lies below sea level, and is protected by levees. It’s basically a large bowl, and even in normal weather, water has to be pumped out of the basin. And … Read More
No You Can’t Have A Pony Update
The sidebar has been modified (temporarily) to provide Hurricane Katrina current webcams, maps, and updates. Some of the webcams from New Orleans and Baton Rouge will probably go down (either deliberately or due to the hurricane), but that’s the nature of the biz. Once it all, uh, blows over, the sidebar will return to its regular pointless status.
Reality TV Comes To Iraq
From the New York Times: Reality TV could turn out to be the most durable Western import in Iraq. It has taken root with considerably greater ease than American-style democracy. Since spring 2004, when "Materials and Labor" made its debut, a constellation of reality shows has burst onto TV screens across Iraq. True to the genre, "Materials and Labor" has … Read More
Overheard in New York
I’m becoming a big fan of this website, whose name is self-explanatory: http://www.overheardinnewyork.com. Check it out. Speaking of New York, why can’t Ann Coulter shut up? UPDATE (8/29/05): Apparently conservatives are thinking the same thing. The Arizona Daily Star has dropped Ann Coulter as a syndicated columnist, with this explanation: Finally, we’ve decided that syndicated columnist Ann Coulter has worn … Read More
Pro-Bush Supporters Attack Themselves
Protest Warriors is a conservative activist group. Their tradmark is to show up at progressive rallies posing as liberals and carrying signs that say things like: "Communism has killed only 100 million people; let’s give it another chance!" and "The ACLU – we don’t hate religions – we just hate Christianity!" Get it? Because people will read the signs and … Read More
Operation Yellow Elephant In Action
Hats off and kudos to this kid who went to a meeting of college Republicans, passing out recruitment fliers (you know, because Bush has called for sacrifice, and because the military news people. He filmed it. Best part is when he is chastized: One thing you’re missing the point on… there are some people..and you need to be more sensitive … Read More
That’s Why We’re Fighting?
Here’s what they’re saying at RedState about the rationale for the war (hey, at least somebody’s saying it: The black-and-white, "get the bad guys" approach can be heard from the Democrats and their allies in the MSM and the American left. They are the ones with the GET OBL! mentaility, as if removing the main bad guys will solve the … Read More
Friday iPod Random Ten
Language Is A Virus – Laurie Anderson Black Coffee In Bed – Squeeze The Color Of The Night – Lauren Christy Ain’t No Mountain High Enough – The Supremes Marathon – Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris (Orignal Cast) Goodnight Tonight – Paul McCartney Year Of The Cat – Al Stewart Mummer’s Dance – Loreena McKennitt … Read More
An Anti-Sheehan Pro-Bush Protester
From this week’s list of Top Ten Conservative Idiots at Democratic Underground:
Clark On Withdrawal
Gen. Wesley Clark makes the case for withdrawal from Iraq, but (unlike others calling for military withdrawal) provides a roadmap on hos to fix the mess. Required reading below the fold.
This Can’t Be Good
From Reuters: BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) – Thousands marched in adoring praise of Iraq’s deposed leader Saddam Hussein on Friday, offering a stark display of the loss of power and leadership felt by some of Iraq’s Sunni Arabs. Drawing inspiration from the Baath party strongman, who now languishes in jail awaiting trial, marchers in Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) northeast of … Read More
Jon Stewart and Christopher Hitchens
As I watched "The Daily Show" last night, in which Jon Stewart debated Christopher Hitchens about the Iraq War, I thought many things: "This is how it should be done. None of the screaming pundits, like on Fox, MSNBC, or even CNN. It’s intelligent AND entertaining" "Damn, Stewart is good. He’s going toe-to-toe with Hitchens" "”Tell me why I’m wrong’, … Read More
Taking Powerline Seriously
Paul Mirengoff makes it clear why the other guys at Powerline don’t let him post so much. Today he writes about "Taking The President Seriously": The subject on yesterday’s edition of the O’Reilly Factor was how long we have to turn things around in Iraq. O’Reilly thought that President Bush has about six months to show the American people that … Read More