Archive for September, 2005

The doctor called my wife this morning and told her that the amniocetesis on our daughter came back normal!

Patrick Volkerding has released Slackware 10.2, and I have decided to take this occasion to formally wipe my disk clean of Redhat 9 and go back to using Slackware. Redhat no longer supports their non-enterprise package, and for the past months I’ve just been patching and doing all the upkeep to my system manually....

With Karl Rove in charge of running the federal government’s relief effort in Louisiana and Mississippi, we can expect to see the looting of the American treasury and infrastructure continue unabated. Look for multi-billion dollar contracts to be handed out to Bush family cronies, with no oversight or accountability. Look for the press and...

Most Americans nowadays are far removed from the realities of food production. We here in the states enjoy cheap food for two primary reasons: 1) cheap labor, mostly in the form of Mexican immigrants, and 2) cheap oil, which pretty much affects every single aspect of food production, from the creation of fertilizers and...

Oh my God. Bush puts Karl Rove in charge of the reconstruction effort in Louisiana and Mississippi. Read Josh Marshall’s take on this. This is worse than when he tried to name Kissinger to head the 9/11 commission.

In light of the bankruptcy announcements from Delta and Northwest, it makes sense that I am stuck at the airport right now, waiting for my American Eagle flight out of Memphis which has been delayed for over 2 hours. It all just illustrates what a complete mess our air transportation system is. So let’s...

Today, Sidney Blumenthal writes on Salon.com on the topic of Bush’s now-ruined presidency. He ends his article with the following: The rest of the Bush presidency will consist of his strained efforts to cobble his myth together again while others cope with the consequences of his damage. The hurricane has tossed and turned the...

Some of the anger directed at the Bush administration for the big mess in New Orleans has focused on the fact that most of the people who were stranded in the aftermath of Katrina were black. Many black entertainers and politicians have come out in protest of how these poor people were treated, with...

We just got back from the doctor’s office for an ultrasound analysis and amniocetisis of our new baby, and it’s a GIRL! Lilia Dominique is due to be born on 23 Feb. The doctor said everything looked great!! My wife is resting comfortably, and we’ve already started calling la familia to let everyone know....

On Tim Burke’s excellent blog, “Easily Distracted”, he makes the point that conservatives should at least have some motivation to follow through on their beliefs by holding Bush accountable for what has transpired in New Orleans and elsewhere near the gulf coast. I see this as a lost cause. As Adam Gruen has said,...