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Political

Both sides of the bridge

There’s a link going round to a story by a couple of emergency medical workers who survived Katrina, but only after suffering deception and unimaginable hardship. (Another related story.) It’s a horrid story of thousands of people trapped in New Orleans because outlying townships would not let them cross over the bridges into their communities. I’ve heard people […]

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Internet

Connectivity

I’ve been fighting a real battle the last two weeks to get and hold a stable internet connection. I thought at first it was the cable connection, but that doesn’t seem to be the problem. With university starting and all new neighbors, I think that my wide open wireless router has been getting several customers, […]

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Web

Not typical

The Missouri State Attorney General has filed suit against the holder of web sites such as katrinafamilies.com for not disclosing that the person, Frank Weltner, is a known white supremacist. In fact, you may remember Weltner from another site he owns: jewwatch.com. He is not typical of Missouri, but we sure seem to attract them here. It is a […]

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People

My annual Dear Jan letter

Everyone should have a Jan Sundberg. A nice bit of normalcy did rear it’s head — I’ve had my annual, “F**k you!” from Jan Sundberg. Ever since I first published my four-part articles on the giant squid and cryptozoology and mentioned his rather, shall we say, ‘dubious’ adventures, I’ve had an email once a year, […]

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Environment

Double Crescent

It seemed a bit cooler this evening. When the roommate got home with the car, I hauled my butt down to Powder to go for a walk. The air quality is so bad that it appeared as smudges against the sky, with only a bit of true cloud showing through — touched with red gold […]