Tag Archives: Grump

New Orleans: The Big Incompetent

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Bruce

Road Home Program Took a Wrong Turn in Mid-City Restorations Sometimes it seems as though “Brownie” and “official” New Orleans deserved each other — why does Ray Nagin still have a job? This from the excellent monthly newsletter of the National H… Continue reading →

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A Right Not to be Framed?

Posted on November 3, 2009 by Bruce

from the editorial page of the Washington Post –Monday, November 2, 2009 “THERE IS NO Freestanding Constitutional ‘Right Not To Be Framed.’ ” So states a brief filed by Iowa prosecutors hoping to persuade the Supreme Court to dismiss a lawsuit ag… Continue reading →

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Potemkin Climate Change Adaptation

Posted on May 18, 2008 by Bruce

So Shankar Vedantam has it right in this article from the Washington Post, 17 May 2008. — read the excerpt below, or the whole story with illustrations at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/16/AR2008051603612.html?hpid=… Continue reading →

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New Spam: Carbon Credits

Posted on January 15, 2008 by Bruce

[Guess it would be just tooo pollyannish to say it’s proof that key environmental messages are now being “mainstreamed.”] To: Continue reading →

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When is SPAM a New Year’s Card?

Posted on January 10, 2008 by Bruce

Check this out — I was about to delete this SPAM, and then I discovered it’s a message from a major program manager at CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL — guess the old categories don’t hold up any more. . . . I’m getting a headache thinking about it… Continue reading →

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Web Semantics 3.0 for Web Users 0.9

Posted on December 30, 2007 by Bruce

This message started as an e-mail to Twine.com, a (still-in-restricted-beta Web 3.0 application) about a personal wish list for improved management of web information resources. 1) Why am I writing this as an e-mail? That certainly seems awfully W… Continue reading →

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Whatever you say, don’t use the “L” word. . .

Posted on December 24, 2007 by Bruce

[Stimulated by a holiday card from the Center for American Progress. . . ] Every once in a while you realize how contaminated the “L” word really is. Scratch a so-called “Progressive” deeply enough (you’ll have to ask MuKacy exactly how deeply, bu… Continue reading →

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Michael Chertoff: The Grinch Who Stole [Canada’s] Christmas

Posted on December 18, 2007 by Bruce

For the three years past, my widely dispersed siblings and I have taken our respective families, and their families, etc., to Niagara-on-the-Lake for a family Christmas weekend. The tradition of a family get-together before Christmas goes back ove… Continue reading →

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