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I don't have cable or satellite and the local NBC coverage I saw was terrible. Dominated by just a handful of events like beach volleyball and swimming, not to mention the lame "feelgood" (and probably fictional) pieces on how athletes can be world class while being good parents. In 4 years I hope to watch some of the events in person, but in 8 years time I suppose I'll have to sign up for cable/satellite/superduperwirelessvideondemandofthefuture.

I guess my point is to emphasize that we weren't just lied to, and we weren't just sheep to believe the lies. We were misled by guys who later decided to take the heat as liars instead of guys who were too stupid to recognize bluff from data. I guess I'd damned well be neither, but if I had to admit to the American public that a) I'm a lying politician or b) I'm a politician dumber than Saddam, - well, let's just say I can maybe see how the choice was made.

No, people were pretty much morons. Anyone who seriously considered chemical weapons to be "WMDs" was a moron. Nukes are city-killers and weapons of "mass destruction"; chems are battlefield denial weapons and terror weapons, they are terribly inefficient mass killers. And you sure as hell don't need to import them from Iraq; a bunch you can cook in your kitchen and the rest can be done in an even minimally equipped lab. The idea of going to fucking WAR because a country had them was ludicrous beyond belief.

Someone will probably again use them again for the extra frisson of terror that novelty gives, but frankly, they'd be wasting their time. Give me 20 footsoldiers and with 20 liters of nice clear flammables in a water bottle, front and back of ten rush hour subway cars, and the emergency brake and I'll give you grief and terror that would make a dinky sarin attack look pathetic. If I want a chem attack, infiltrate a few people in as truck drivers -- and believe me, the standards are low -- or simply hijack a few chlorine tankers and drive them into an elementary school.

And it's not just ethanol - I hear they don't even have real Coke, made from sucrose, over there!

Conspiracy #1 - Sugar cane Before the revolution, sugar cane was cheaply imported from Cuba; no more. The idea of using Cuba's cane fields for ethanol production was explored in the Jimmy Smits drama, Cane.

Conspiracy #2 - Hemp According to a Kiwi biofuel company, hemp far exceeds the yields of corn.

So you see sugar cane and hemp aren't viable. Two wars, "on Drugs" and "Cold" are more important... :(

Should the Cuban revolution fall after the deaths of the Castro brothers, you might see real Coke and cheaper fuel! As for the other matter, blame Arnie!

Here is the bridge which fire took down...
http://www.nbc11.com/news/13217764/detail.html

Yes the Mississippi bridge collapsed of it's own accord. Repeatedly documented as in need of refurbishing. Buildings collapse of their own too now and then.

But the section of bridge above collapsed by fire did not correspond to a bridge falling apart. Or the rest of the bridge structure would have more than likely collapsed as well under such stress.

Evolution may be one of the fundamental building blocks of modern biological science, but a new Gallup survey finds that the majority of Republicans in the United States do not believe the theory of evolution is true and do not believe that humans evolved over millions of years from less advanced forms of life.

The findings suggest that the three Republican presidential candidates who indicated last month that they do not believe in evolution may have been taking a safe stance on the issue.

The poll released Monday said that while the country is about evenly split over whether the theory of evolution is true, Republicans disbelieve it by more than 2-1.

Republicans saying they don't believe in evolution outnumbered those who do by 68 percent to 30 percent in the survey. Democrats believe in evolution by 57 percent to 40 percent, as do independents by a 61 percent to 37 percent margin.

Uh... I've heard of one too many cell phones smoking. I don't want to see another one....

:-)

According to this article, Hans Reiser had to pay $8,000 in alimony a month to Nina. Nina was getting $96,000 a year for not working!

I don't condone any killing, legal or not, but if she had indeed cheated on him before their divorce and then got that kind of money, it's easy to see how the feeling of having been so completely beaten by someone he loved could have made him desperate.

Something seems broken with California's alimony law.

Infatuation has a blinding effect on people. It's only by the time she's sucking $8000/month alimony out of him that he takes a moment to fo the math and relizes that visiting Nevada every weekend would be cost less and be more fun.

This makes me wonder why they didn't put a link to info about his arrest in the article. Not everyone knew this, and it is just sloppy of the editors to NOT include a link to give a bit of context about the arrest.

I found info here, here, and here

Do you live near them, or do you know them closely? No? A newspaper says she disappeared? Various articles on the internet? Sounds alleged from here...

How about a local Television report?

She disappeared.

LK

There are several stories that talk about secret evidence, like this one:
DuBois said that at a hearing in Alameda County Superior Court last week, police officers said they had evidence against Hans Reiser but said they couldn't share their secret information with Reiser or the court

That's pretty sad. I just happened to be walking around Rockrdige (an area next to Oakland) and noticed his wife's flyer. She was very beautiful and looks very sweet. I had no idea that it was Hans Reiser's wife though.

Here's the flyer:
http://www.nbc11.com/news/9948582/detail.html

http://www.nbc11.com/news/10046048/detail.html

Chilling quote: "All avenues led back to Mr. Reiser being responsible."

In Cupertino did Kubla Khan[1]
A stately pleasure-dome decree[2] :
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran[3]
Through caverns measureless to man[4]
Down to a sunless sea.[5]

There's no NBC affiliate in the Bay Area

WTF?. I was rollin' over the comics section of your linked site, btw. Good stuff.

Or you find cost savings by eliminating unnecessary expenses

It's worth even less now

No, "hostile" would be running over Pluto with a parade float. Oops.