Archive for January, 2007
Sunday, January 21st, 2007
You Can Still See Them from Here
I stopped at the infamous Vince Lombardi Service Area on the Jersey Turnpike (click the link for an awesome article on the history of the Turnpike, including how, in 1967, the “famous summit between Soviet Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin and President (Lyndon) Johnson…was almost held at the Howard Johnson at the Grover Cleveland service area […]
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Sunday, January 21st, 2007
Back Home
Not much has changed:
A 17-year-old girl was fatally shot early yesterday at a nightclub crowded with teenagers near the U Street corridor, a rapidly transforming area of the District that has drawn a sometimes volatile mix of young people who flock to the bars and restaurants at night.
The shooting of Taleshia Ford set off a […]
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Saturday, January 20th, 2007
Yikes
Via Soulstrut, via a friend, the very scary Faces of Meth from the Oregon Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office. This is why we can no longer buy allergy medications without being monitored by the government.
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Friday, January 19th, 2007
Iran, a Complex Place
Today’s New York Times report that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was rebuked by the country’s even more powerful leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for his push for an Iranian nuclear program just adds to the complex picture of Iran that Americans not in thrall to axis-of-evil rhetoric are starting to get of that country and how […]
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Friday, January 19th, 2007
In Other Weather News
Apparently the public is allowed to buy names for storms in Germany:
The storm, called Kyrill by German meteorologists, generated pelting rain in Britain, Ireland, France, Belgium and the Netherlands….
“This is the worst storm since 2002,” said Burkhard Kirsch, a meteorologist at the German Weather Service, noting that a gust of 123 m.p.h. had been recorded […]
