Memnison Journal

Some stray items:

• The whole Edwards/Hunter thing just gets weirder and more frayed by the moment.  Rielle Hunter’s old website was purged off of the Internet Archive; I would imagine that required a specific request from Hunter.  And a lot of the old follow-the-money issues are getting snarly; the same deep pockets that are paying off Hunter at present donated exactly enough to Edwards’ PAC at the right time to pay off her final ‘bill’ for services to the PAC.  Dammit, John…
• Paul Krugman points out with a rock that the present world system of commerce, trade and power that we’re used to can collapse pretty easily and quickly.  A very good read.

And if Russia is willing and able to use force to assert control over its self-declared sphere of influence, won’t others do the same? Just think about the global economic disruption that would follow if China — which is about to surpass the United States as the world’s largest manufacturing nation — were to forcibly assert its claim to Taiwan.

• The Brazilian Navy found the remains of that priest who took off in a whole bunch of balloons attached to a lawn chair - out in the middle of the ocean.  *Burp*

At various times, I get into research projects; some simmer on for decades in various forms, and some break off and pick up speed because I happen to run into something that really fuels the fire, so to speak.

My library here is largely one that I use for reference. I have a huge amount of material that isn’t in book form, and I’m going through that all the time and hacking away at it to be able to organize and marshal the stuff. At present, the idea is to digitize everything, and use various management utilities to be able to find and figure out what’s what.

Here’s a *short* list of the topics I’m still digging for:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/10/world/americas/10brazil.html?hp&ex=1144641600&en=3db8284d44379dca&ei=5094&partner=homepage