May 2008

Day 998: Up Into The Air Again Today

May 22, 2008

Day 997: Headlines Du Jour

May 21, 2008

* The University of Wisconsin is in the Wall Street Journal for accepting more students from the freshman waiting list due to uncertainty generated by changes in the admissions process. * IHT: Obama Faces Uphill Battle With Florida Jews “The people here, liberal people, will not vote for Obama because of his attitude towards Israel.” [...]

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Day 997: Roller Derby On ESPN

May 21, 2008

Featuring our very own Big Easy Rollergirls Tweet

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Day 996: Travel, Sick Relatives, Computers. Gah.

May 20, 2008

Things have been rather hectic here at VatulBlog HQ lately. So busy that I have neither the time nor the inclination to blog. I’ve seen more of the insides of airports and geophysical data than any human should and the best part is that it isn’t over. More travel and data schlepping ahead. This past weekend, [...]

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May 20, 2008

Sound familiar? “Unless U.S. imperial overstretch is acknowledged and corrected, the United States may someday soon find that it has become a Potemkin village superpower – with a facade of military strength concealing a core of economic weakness.” — Christopher Layne, Why the Gulf War Was Not in the National Interest, The Atlantic, July 1991 [...]

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Day 990: On The Brain Of Late

May 14, 2008

* In another display of his infinite wisdom, our president recently stated that food prices are going up because … wait for it … India’s growing middle class is getting richer and eating too much. First our jobs, now our food? How dare those incorrigible browns! In response, Indians folded up their collective lungi and [...]

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Day 988: They Take Away Yet They Give …

May 12, 2008

NOT FUNNY: I’ve got your “education and training” right here, John McCain, you awful, misogynistic douchebag. Now make employers pay me what they pay a guy for doing the same work! And thanks for setting women’s rights back about half a century in the minds of your supporters. Ugh. FUNNY (Thanks, Slate!): This contained a [...]

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Day 986: Cyclone Nargis Flood Maps

May 10, 2008

IFRC: Aid moving out but more needed [As of May 9th,] over 220,000 people have received some form of aid from government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), other organizations and the general public. Over 80,000 of them have been served by Myanmar Red Cross … “Food, hygiene kits, water purification tablets, mosquito nets, sanitary supplies and most [...]

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Day 985: Barack Obollywood

May 9, 2008

This one’s for Alli: Tweet

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May 9, 2008

In my last post, I mentioned the possibility of travelling to Myanmar later this year to help the victims of Cyclone Nargis rebuild. Thanks to the latest actions of the military “leadership” there, Americans may not be let in until then. Tweet

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