Month December 2006

Indigenous death in custody: Request for solidarity

Brisbane, Australia:The Queensland Dept of Public Prosecution’s disgusting decision to ignore the Deputy Coroner’s findings that the Qld police killed Mulrinji,an indigenous man, in November 2004 while he was in police custody –has been met with community disbelief. The DPP…

Thoughts on turning 58

They can take the Yankee out of Connecticut but even after 35 years away, my accent is still Northeast, according to the quite accurate “What American accent do you have?” quiz. Judging by how you talk you are probably from…

Wave power

A New Zealand company is proposing “to generate electricity with 200 tidal-powered turbines submerged at the entrance to the Kaipara Harbour.” It’ll be enough for 250,000 homes, and the largest project of its kind anywhere. Power doesn’t get much more…

Here today, gone to Maui

For the past several weeks I’ve in effect been the general contractor on the remodeling of our house. The living room and dining room got turned into one big room by taking down a wall. The master bath now has…