Day October 22, 2007

Riverbend made it to Syria

The first evening we arrived, exhausted, dragging suitcases behind us, morale a little bit bruised, the Kurdish family sent over their representative – a 9 year old boy missing two front teeth, holding a lopsided cake, “We’re Abu Mohammed’s house-…

Southern California fires

“I live in Santiago Canyon. One minute last night the stars were out and the winds calm. The next minute there was fire literally jumping over the ridge. We had five minutes to evacuate.” – featured comment, front page LA…

Yes, Kansas

Citing concerns about global warming, Kansas’ top regulator today denied a long-awaited permit to build a controversial coal plant in western Kansas. This is further proof, if any still be needed, that concern about global warming is a mainstream issue…

The credit crisis demystified

Wherein it is explained how an unemployment man sitting on a stoop morphs into a Structured Investment Vehicle worth $100 million. Oh wait, it was worth $100 million, then it wasn’t, now no one has a clue what actually it’s…