Day April 26, 2007

Riverbend is leaving Iraq

Riverbend, the eloquent anonymous blogger from Baghdad, has just posted again. She and her family are leaving Iraq, to where they do not know. There are moments when the injustice of having to leave your country, simply because an imbecile…

Urban dictionary

Urban Dictionary, “a slang dictionary with your definitions,” is a fun site Some samples: globfrag Coined word from globalization and fragmentation; as the world becomes more globalized with increasing technology and knowledge, more fragmentation occurs among individuals and societies. clicktease…

Water privatization in Scotland

Thames Water and other privatized water companies in Scotland have “third world” equipment and are currently dumping 1000 liters per second of raw sewage into the water because darn it, something broke, and company execs are just too busy counting…

Attorney Generals come and go

But the wheels of repression grind on, with neither party discussing the “torture, repression of immigrants, the gathering of secret evidence by mass spying, and so on.” On these abuses by the Attorney General and the government, the Democrats are…