Help Katrina Victims
Everyone has their preferred charity, except maybe myself. Luckily, I have friends who know of great charities where money will actually get to its intended recipients.
Feed the Children

Other Lessons from Viet Nam
This is your Captain speaking…
Reading Michael Yon’s dispatch from Iraq, (highly recommended), I saw that our forces seemed to have trouble killing the terrorists there with our small arms. We were using many shots to try to kill them where they had the advantage of using the larger bore bullets [...]

There’s always good reading out there, and I’ve fallen a bit behind, some columns I noted:
Peggy Noonan considers the need to imagine evil.
Noonan basically says we have to stop shutting down military bases because we never know if we might need them. This is an important concept that I’ve heard before but is probably [...]

Zah?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6173286/
BUCHAREST, Romania – A elderly Romanian man mistook his penis for a chicken’s neck, cut it off and his dog rushed up and ate it, the state Rompres news agency said on Monday.
It said 67-year-old Constantin Mocanu, from a village near the southeastern town of Galati, rushed out into his yard in his underwear to [...]

Yecke Out
Dr. Cheri Yecke is pulling out of the 6th district congressional race. She has been offered a top job in Florida working in her chosen field of education. This story has already been reported on by everyone, Tony Garcia has the best overall summary methinks. Andy from RF has the inside [...]

I am:
Arthur C. Clarke
Well known for nonfiction science writing and for early promotion of the effort toward space travel, his fiction was often grand and visionary.

Which science fiction writer are you?
Yea! I’m the boring one!

If you haven’t seen Speed Gibson’s posts on local talk radio, they are a must read, the third on the series is available here.

The Health Effects of Apathy
I spent 11 days with practically no internet connection, no news sources, and not a care about anything in the world. Eleven days of training in a room full of conservatives that sometimes were so far to the right I would cringe. It was great.
Spending time away from the [...]

Seperation of Church and State in Minnesota:

Here’s a little taste of what it feels like to work for a PC paper, this is an actual email I received on the “all staff” forward list of the Minnesota Daily:
JERRET
This is a perfect example of why we need reporter minority group sensitivity training. Why do the police reports include Somali and Ethiopian in [...]