Jim Rittenhouse's semidaily journal of news, commentary and reports
He’s expressing his rather strong opinions on how the Vancouver Olympics are a money pit in a downturn period, cutting off funding for other public things in favour of high-end expense for the Games. (NSFW re strong language)
At her Livejournal, Maia Cowan has a VERY cool and nice set of photos of an art installation in Toronto called Long Wave that is a approximation of a radio wave going through the air….highly recommended as radio geek fodder and as art.
A different perspective, as pig farmers are finding out that the swine flu may not kill them, but it’s doing a lot of damage to their pigs…or rather, that people are scared to buy pork and catch That Really Big Disease. “We’re heading for a wreck,” said Simon Goodwin, a pig farmer in Alberta, where [...]
…which is the Organization of American States’ irregular meeting of the leadership of the OAS states (34) countries). Interesting news coming out of it, of course. Discussions between Obama and the US delegation on the one side, and some people Bush would never deal with on the other…discussions with the Cubans and Venezuelans and so [...]
The new Secretary of Agriculture is calling for changing the focus of USDA away from ‘anything the regulated community wants’ to serving the consumer of the food. I’ll believe it when I see it, considering USDA’s past track record on meat and poultry inspection in particular (my mom was a very conscientious inspector for 30 [...]
Well, they had them, and not all of them were found and properly disposed of, apparently….
The US Customs office in North Dakota is now using a Predator UAV for patrol purposes.
I’m curious as to what Canadian news source(s) for Canadian current events and politics, etc., that you think are particularly good.
,,,as the mascot of the 2010 Winter Olympics. I approve.
This works for either me or Meredith. There’s some question as to whether Susan has been in Mexico; if she was, it was to take two steps over the border in Tijuana or something. This is Mere’s states. California from when we brought her home, Massachusetts from a trip to the Boston Worldcon, and the [...]
Live streams at CSPAN TV and CBC Results: Elections Canada Nodice Close ridings (Globe and Mail) Provincial breakdowns (Globe and Mail) National list (by province) (Globe and Mail) The Star’s party game (asks questions, your choices reflect which party you’d be likely to vote for, can be weighed for your interest in the issues. It [...]
Susan and I took advantage of the federal holiday (but not one for the elections people) to go for the first day of early voting. We have to, because we’re election judges. The ballot was light – only a scattering of races, and in our heavily red area, a lot of the more local stuff [...]
The concept – how to get old polluting clunker cars off the road? One possible solution that’s going on in Canada and a few other places is to have a government buy-out of old clunker cars to retire the things for scrap and pay off the owner for the thing something that would act as [...]
The interesting part of the last week, of course, was to watch McCain be seriously stupid in the face of Obama’s trip to the Middle East and Europe. The whole thing started off with McCain double-dast-daring that gormless Obama guy to be a real man and walk down a Baghdad street like he did, and [...]
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 [...]