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(apologies to H.G. Wells) Yesterday the pumps went dry at both gas stations on Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. Although most military families in Tucson buy gas on base, this doesn’t create a hardship, since we can buy gas at the same discounted price at Costco and other civilian discount stations around town. At the moment, […]
This entry was posted by co-blogger Dick, a writer and former squadron mate: The scale, the magnitude of Katrina is so overwhelming that I can’t find the right adjectives to describe what I’m seeing, much less fully understand what has happened. I’m told the geographical extent is approximately 90,000 square miles. Okay, I understand that. […]
Belle Waring says: Say what you like about casting blame for the unfolding tragedy in NO, the bare facts of the matter are these: America suffered a serious attack on Sept. 11, 2001. That was four years ago. I think we had all assumed that in the meantime a lot of wargaming and disaster-mitigation planning […]
Cindy Sheehan has left the building. If it hasn’t already happened, mainstream media coverage of the protest at George W. Bush’s ranch will soon dwindle to the level given missing black women, and we can all quit thinking about dead and wounded Americans and Iraqis. My friend Dick says democracies can’t fight long wars. I […]
Seeing is believing. From Metafilter: Black people loot, white people borrow. Racist photo captions by Yahoo News/AP illuminate more than Katrina’s aftermath. If these pictures are taken down, there are mirrors right here. I’d say something snarky, but that would be snarking snark. . . .
So it’s all like I’m gonna put the Sodom & Gomorrah to New Orleans, and then no, maybe I’ll angle off to the east and just flood it a little instead, so even though you got wet, you skated this time, Big Easy. Whew! These damn hurricanes keep threatening apocalyptic disaster and then delivering normal […]
Reverend Pat Robertson calls for the assassination of Hugo Chavez. Apparently they mistranslated the Sixth Commandment. It should have read “Thou Shalt Kill.”
This entry was posted by my co-blogger Dick, a writer and former squadron mate: Cindy Sheehan is breaking my heart. In a prior life, when I was a first lieutenant on my first operational assignment, an aircraft from my wing crashed and made the evening news. Unfortunately, it was over eighteen hours before I could […]