Day November 28, 2006

Climate change?

Friends who live in on Vancouver Island in Canada tell me they just had a major blizzard, this in an area that supposedly “never gets snow.” Their power and phones were out for a couple of days, and more snow…

Breaking: prison guards charged in death

Seven former “boot camp” prison guards and a nurse are being charged with first degree aggravated manslaughter in the suffocation death of a 13 year-old inmate in Florida. As well they should be. The nurse just stood there and did…

Britain, dead spies, and oil

Litvinenko is dead, yet Britain needs Russian oil. Plus ultra-wealthy oligarchs have already moved there, buying large amounts of real estate, etc. So Britain is being “cautious” in their response to the murder. Wheels within wheels, plots and subplots, it’s…

An idea whose time has come

Black leaders, including Jesse Jackson, say it’s time for everyone, including the entertainment business and rappers, to stop using the “n-word.” “We want to give our ancestors a present,” Jackson said at a news conference. “Dignity over degradation.”