Archive for 'Obituaries'
Islamophobes
Posted: August 31st, 2010 under Obituaries, Scribbles, The War.
Tags: 9/11, Islamophobic, mosque at ground zero
Comments: 2
The plastic cycle of life
Plastic bags, which I greatly prefer to paper (which has a tendency to get wet and fall apart, dropping everything in the street) are under assault everywhere these days. Particularly in (where else) California, home of Queen Nancy, the botox pol a majority of us know and despise. So this little “mockumentary” is more affecting [...]
Posted: August 22nd, 2010 under Obamalot, Obituaries, Science/Engineering, Scribbles.
Comments: 2
The Seablogger on cancer
Divide and Conquer
The cells divide. The cells that will not die
divide too well and so they multiply.
They kill the host to keep themselves alive.
The blood goes bad. In vain physicians try
to purge the veins with drugs the cells defy.
The cells divide. The cells that will not die
mutate anew. The hardy few survive.
The few recruit the [...]
Posted: July 16th, 2010 under Blogosphere, Library, Obituaries.
Tags: Alan Sullivan, Fresh Bilge, poetry, seablogger, The cells divide, verse
Comments: none
Seablogger sinking
For some time now, the health of Alan Sullivan, the Seablogger, has been sinking. It seems that he is near death:
“Steve and Tim have conferred with Dr. D. this morning. He told them that there is little hope of Alan ever communicating again. Accordingly, they directed Dr. D. to discontinue ‘heroic [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2010 under Blogosphere, Obituaries, Weather/Climate.
Tags: Alan Sullivan, Fresh Bilge, Instalanche, seablogger
Comments: 2
SWAT killers strike again
This time they killed an innocent 7-year-old girl in Detroit. But don’t just blame the police, blame the pols who enable them.
Via Instapundit.
Posted: May 25th, 2010 under Blogosphere, Obituaries.
Tags: Aiya Stanley-Jones, Detroit, SWAT
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A Canticle for Leibowitz
Powerful book, this, despite the irony that fifty years after it was first published, nothing remotely close to its apocalyptic vision of nuclear holocaust has yet occurred or even seems likely. Not even with the Iranian push for nukes.
There is another irony about this classic SciFi tale (which is only really SciFi at the end [...]
Posted: May 20th, 2010 under Library, Obituaries, Science/Engineering, Scribbles, Space.
Tags: A Canticle for Leibowitz, nuclear holocaust, suicide, Walter Miller Jr.
Comments: 2
Here’s a thought
“In Victorian America, death was discussed open and honestly, but the topic of sex was considered taboo. In the United States today, it is just the opposite.” –from Widow’s Weeds and Weeping Veils.
Via TOCWOC.
Posted: May 2nd, 2010 under Blogosphere, Civil War, Genealogy, Library, Obituaries.
Tags: death, sex, Victorian America
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Slick Willie at it again
Lying, that is. The man who made Monica a household word and openly sold pardons at the end of his second term ought to be more humble. He isn’t.
“With President Clinton wagging his finger at the Tea Party movement and claiming that the movement is inciting violence, it is worthwhile to remember the [...]
Posted: April 21st, 2010 under Blogosphere, Obituaries, Texana.
Tags: Bad Bill, Bill Clinton, coverup, inciting violence, Slick Willie, Tea Party, Waco
Comments: 2
Vernon Hunter, RIP
Mr. Hunter, 68, a retired Army careerist, Vietnam veteran and IRS manager, is presumed to have been killed in the suicide terrorism incident in Northwest Austin Thursday.
UPDATE: More from Hunter’s family, both related and friends. And this.
Posted: February 20th, 2010 under Obituaries, Texana, Viet Nam.
Tags: domestic terrorism, plane crash austin, Vernon Hunter
Comments: 4
Never forget
NYPD aerial from a collection of 9/11 aerials obtained by ABC News via a Freedom of Information request. Funny how they wanted these but continue to hide their own videos from public view.
More than eight years later, the emotion is still almost fresh. None of those people above the strike line (fire on right) [...]
Posted: February 11th, 2010 under Obituaries, Scribbles, The War.
Tags: 9/11, John Hinderaker, NYPD aerial photos, World Trade Center
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