HELIOLITH

More than fifteen houses were crushed or destroyed in nearby La Conchita today as a mudslide overtook a large section of the small town. Two Three people are confirmed dead, and at least 6 others are believed to be trapped in their homes beneath the mud. According to a just published AP […]

For the first time in I can’t remember how long, I was able to finish a novel. What a wonderful thing! Praises to time off from teaching. I would summarize it ever-so-briefly, but I am conditioned not to. The main character, Amir, explains that in America if […]

Two weeks of time spent with family in the NY area, reunion with my mom, dad, sister (Talula!), brother, and lots of other relations is ending. I’m grateful to have been able to fly back here & spend time with them during these shortest days of the year. I should have prefaced […]

I’ve made up my mind to try out Linux after continually reading postive things about it. Quite a few bloggers I respect have written about it or use it, and it seems to permeate many tech circles, as does much of the great stuff I find valuable (like firefox, delicious, wordpress, etc.). […]

Err… Christmas. I wouldn’t normally pay too much attention to the ultra conservative wing or to Christian propaganda, but considering who is sitting in the White House, unless you’re in denial still, I’d say it’s an imperative to keep tabs on the radical right.
Today the La Times reports that one southern church […]

I happened upon this attractive blog today: Orthodox Anarchist via a link on Boingboing referencing an exchange of legal letters. It’s easy to loathe the zeal with which business sometimes persecutes criticism, especially when the perspective they represent is narrow-minded and humorless. Dan “Mobius” Sieradski (author of Jewschool.com and Orthodoxanarchist.com) writes,
The […]

The BBC reported yesterday,

“The Pentagon is spending $10bn a year on the missile system, which was meant to be in operation by the end of 2004. The Missile Defence Agency said an “unknown anomaly” was to blame for the system shutting down.
Can you comprehend that we’re still going at this? Ronald Reagan’s […]

I feel somewhat as though the air is still knocked out of me. Perhaps it’s because of the time I spent in Germany and the rich kinesthetic sense of the language in my throat, chest, ears, and hands as it is spoken. I think sometimes that staying in one place […]

Today Dahr Jamil
spoke with witnesses of another car-bombing
Aisha Dulaimy, a resident of al-Adhamiya said, The reason for this car bomb is the Americans want to cause a split between the Shia and Sunni. But there has never been fighting between the Shia and Sunni in the history of Iraq. They want to make a […]

*(If you live in Duval County, Florida). Unfortunately, many people are unaware of the serious risks associated with common over-the-counter pesticides. It seems that society has regressed from the environmental consciousness catalyzed in 1962 when Rachel Carson published Silent Spring. Roundup is common enough to be a household name, and household insecticides […]