Category: world news
pink and green
I was still living in the fraternity house in 1985, so when Live Aid was broadcast, it was an excuse to throw a party and be shitfaced before the sun went down. And from what I recall, it wasn’t all that exciting to watch on TV. The big gossip/rumor at the time was that the [...]
higher ground
This is some incredible stuff: the recent earthquake in the Solomon Islands (the same quake that spawned the killer tsunami) lifted the island of Ranongga up to 10 feet (~ 3 metres) higher than it previously was.
In other words, everything around the island that was previously under up to 10 feet of water is now [...]
all in the family
Years down the road the George W. Bush administration will be but another chapter in the country’s history. The basic history books will devote one chapter to George W., and that chapter will hit all the big news: 9/11, terror, driving the Taliban out of Afghanistan, the failure to capture Osama bin Laden, the invasion [...]
scream until daddy stops
I found these photos a few minutes apart while browsing tonight — the one on the left in a news story; the one on the right in a profile at worldleathermen.com. The one on the right, given the context where I found it, made me laugh far more than I should have. Side-by-side, I think [...]
cheap gas here
Being the fat, navel-gazing nation that we are, I doubt if most US residents realize that we enjoy some of the cheapest gasoline prices in the world. In Norway, the world’s third-largest oil producer, they have the world’s most expensive gas prices and, as this excellent NY Times article notes, it’s sort of taken in [...]
how touching
In today’s “what the hell were they thinking” department, the online edition of The Boston Globe features a story on local reaction to the pope’s death. In light of the catholic church’s sexual abuse scandals in New England, the Globe’s home page packaging of this story (screen cap to the right) is curious. First of [...]