Archive for 2006
Saturday, December 30th, 2006
New Word: “Victory Deaths”
From The Onion:
Thousands More Dead In Continuing Iraq Victory
America marks three and a half years of winning in Iraq, and nearly 3,000 victory deaths
December 18, 2006 | Issue 42•51
Statistics released by the Department Of Defense estimated that 2,937 U.S. troops and over 100,000 Iraqi civilians have died in the ongoing American military victory in Iraq.
General […]
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Saturday, December 30th, 2006
Execution Before Full Prosecution
One of my dearest friends is a Kurdish-American Iraqi immigrant who lost 40 relatives to Saddam Hussein’s genocidal campaign against the Kurds, the Anfal. She was condemned by Hussein’s government for her work with foreign NGOs, and eventually evacuated to America from Iraq as a political refugee in the mid-90s. Anyway, we were talking yesterday […]
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Saturday, December 30th, 2006
Not the Lower 9th Ward
Where did John Edwards announce his presidential candidacy? Reading the blogs and opinion sites, it’s easy to get confused. Here’s what different people are saying:
Nancy Scola at MyDD: “the yard of Orelia Tyler’s house in the 9th Ward of New Orleans.”
My colleague Ezra Klein on his LA Weekly site: “the upper 9th Ward.”
My colleague Ben […]
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Friday, December 29th, 2006
The Bizarre History of the Canada Goose
Speaking of Canada geese, this fascinating history of the species and how they went native in America is well worth reading — a real case study in the law of unintended consequences:
As late as the 1950s, the giant Canada goose was thought to be extinct. In 1962, however, biologists confirmed that some individuals remained near […]
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Friday, December 29th, 2006
Global Warming Watch 5: Polar Ice & Seismic Activity
From the AFP:
An enormous ice shelf broke away from Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic last year, researchers said, warning it could be another symptom of global warming.
The 66-square-kilometer (25.5-square-mile) ice island tore away from Ellesmere, a huge strip of land in the Canadian Arctic close to Greenland.
The break occurred in August 2005 and was […]
